New questions need new tools.
Behavior analysis has a powerful, time-tested toolkit: single-subject design, visual analysis, and descriptive statistics. To ask and answer questions the field has not been able to ask before, we have to reach past it and leverage state-of-the-art technologies and analytic approaches. This line of work builds and shares those tools, expanding what a behavior analyst can do.
Expanding the repertoire
Each new method is a tool added to the chest, and a new question it lets you ask. We model the structure of behavior, work at the scale of whole literatures, bring machine learning and modern statistics to behavioral data, measure behavior in new ways, and package the methods so others can use them too. The point is not novelty for its own sake; it is reaching questions the standard toolkit leaves out of range.
The expanded toolchest
The field's traditional methods sit at the center. Each colored spoke is a new capability, and each project radiates outward along it (oldest nearest the center, newest farthest), so the repertoire visibly grows. Hover a node to see the paper, click to read it, and click a spoke label for what that capability lets you ask.
Distance from the center is the year of the work; the spoke color marks the capability. Nineteen methods papers across two threads (quantitative, computational, and statistical methods, and research methodologies).
The open frontier
The fastest way to ask a new question is to pick up a tool you have not used yet. If you want to learn how one of these methods works, or to bring one to a question in your own research, we would like to help. The aim is a field that can ask and answer questions it could not before.
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