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Weighted kappa: Nominal scale agreement provision for scaled disagreement or partial credit.

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1948 • 1,383 citations

Toward a functional analysis of self-injury

1982 • 1,026 citations

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Identifying the variables maintaining self-injurious behavior

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1990 • 315 citations

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1995 • 275 citations

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1993 • 270 citations

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1994 • 238 citations

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1994 • 220 citations

THE SIGNIFICANCE AND FUTURE OF FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS METHODOLOGIES

1994 • 218 citations

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1997 • 215 citations

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Functional analysis and treatment of aberrant behavior

1991 • 162 citations

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Issues in functional analysis in behavioral assessment

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Differential Effects of Severe Self-injurious Behaviour on the Behaviour of Others

1992 • 65 citations

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The use of functional analyses to test causes of self‐injurious behaviour: rationale, current status and future directions

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