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Although the calculations involved in regression and matching analyses are surprisingly easy with regards to the difficulty of the mathematical operations involved, they are also relatively time consuming and may be tedious to compute by hand or calculator. Ultimately, such translation provides practitioners with the analytical tools used by basic and translational researchers, which achieves two goals: (a) Practitioners will better understand principles of learning theory and how basic research analyzes such data, and (b) practitioners will have an additional analytical tool that they can translate to their clinical work to better understand behavior–consequence interactions. Through this process, applied behavior analysts offer generalizability to experimental procedures and ultimately arrive at interventions that are conceptually consistent with basic operant principles. As discussed by Lerman (2003), the successful translation of basic findings to applied settings represents our field's primary goal of understanding the basic processes that underlie behavior in an effort to effectively and efficiently target behaviors for change. These discussions highlight an increasing interest in bridge research, which seeks to translate the findings from basic laboratory studies to social concerns (see Fisher & Mazur, 1997). However, it can be inferred that all behavior-change procedures rely on some deviation from the matching law given the presence of concurrent schedules of reinforcement or differential consequences that underlie any reinforcement- or punishment-based procedure (see McDowell, 1988). In recent years, behavior analysts have applied the generalized matching equation (see Baum, 1974, 1979 Davison & McCarthy, 1988) to topics outside the laboratory, such as problem behavior ( Borrero & Vollmer, 2002), sports ( Reed, Critchfield, & Martens, 2006 Romanowich, Bourret, & Vollmer, 2007 Vollmer & Bourret, 2000), academics ( Mace, Neef, Shade, & Mauro, 1994 Reed & Martens, 2008), and social dynamics ( Borrero et al., 2007).