Hopkins B L
Department of Psychology, Auburn University, Alabama 36849, USA.
J Appl Behav Anal. 1995 Fall;28(3):379-86. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1995.28-379.
This paper examines Pfadt and Wheeler's (1995) suggestions that the methods of statistical process control (SPC) be incorporated into applied behavior analysis. The research strategies of SPC are examined and compared to those of applied behavior analysis. I argue that the statistical methods that are a part of SPC would likely reduce applied behavior analysts' intimate contacts with the problems with which they deal and would, therefore, likely yield poor treatment and research decisions. Examples of these kinds of results and decisions are drawn from the cases and data Pfadt and Wheeler present. This paper also describes and clarifies many common misconceptions about SPC, including W. Edwards Deming's involvement in its development, its relationship to total quality management, and its confusion with various other methods designed to detect sources of unwanted variability.
本文探讨了普法特和惠勒（1995年）提出的将统计过程控制（SPC）方法纳入应用行为分析的建议。文中考察了SPC的研究策略，并将其与应用行为分析的策略进行了比较。我认为，作为SPC一部分的统计方法可能会减少应用行为分析师与他们所处理问题的密切接触，因此可能会导致糟糕的治疗和研究决策。这类结果和决策的例子取自普法特和惠勒所展示的案例及数据。本文还描述并澄清了许多关于SPC的常见误解，包括W.爱德华兹·戴明在其发展过程中的参与情况、它与全面质量管理的关系，以及它与旨在检测不必要变异来源的其他各种方法的混淆。
