Murray Sidman's statements regarding variability, experimental control, and generality are interwoven with examples from the literature on conditional discrimination. Sidman's position was that statistical inferences from group studies produce no information about the behavior of individual subjects and that statistical treatment of individual subject data masks variability which may represent conditions that are not controlled. Sidman's work on conditional discrimination provides excellent examples of how complex discriminations should be examined in detail with accuracy levels obtained for each type of discrimination within an experiment. Sidman made important contributions to the foundation of behavior analysis with extensive basic research as well as applications of methods and principles to clinical and educational settings.

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西德曼还是统计学？

Murray Sidman 关于可变性、实验控制和一般性的陈述与文献中关于条件歧视的例子交织在一起。Sidman 的立场是，小组研究的统计推论不会产生关于个体受试者行为的信息，并且个体受试者数据的统计处理掩盖了可能代表不受控制的条件的可变性。Sidman 关于条件歧视的工作提供了很好的例子，说明应该如何详细检查复杂的歧视，并在实验中为每种类型的歧视获得准确度。Sidman 通过广泛的基础研究以及方法和原理在临床和教育环境中的应用，为行为分析的基础做出了重要贡献。