From Percentages to Precision: Using Response Rates to Advance Analyses of Procedural Fidelity

Overview

Journal Perspect Behav Sci

Publisher Springer Nature

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2025 Mar 13

PMID 40078356

Authors

Claire C St Peter

Olivia B Harvey

Marisela Aguilar

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Abstract

Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40614-025-00433-9.

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