Brief report: Ecobehavioral assessment using transparent scatter plots

Comprehensive ecobehavioral assessment has tended to rely on elaborate statistical approaches to determine if relationships exist between a large number of environmental events and target behaviors. Although extensive ecological‐correlation analyses can provide important information about the individual's total environment, the elaborate statistical procedure required can also be very unwieldy for applied staff. As an alternative, minor modifications in the scatter plot technique, originally suggested by Touchette et al . (1985), can provide similar information more efficiently while providing applied workers with direct visual contact with the data. Essentially, the technique involves constructing a series of transparent scatter plots, which can be overlaid, and from which important relationships can be readily detected.