On 24 Apr 2000 07:41:10 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul W.
Jeffries) wrote:
> Does any one know of good sources--either book chapters or articles--that
> discuss how low reliability among items in an experiment influences
> inferential statistics.
That background, I think, should be in standard psychometric texts,
like the ones by Nunnally or Kline.
I think the focus narrowed after the work in the 1950s on
coefficients. I once found some unusual perspectives in JPGuilford in
the 1936 edition, which may include your interest; I don't know how it
compares with the (1954) 2nd edition.
If yours is very narrow question, the answer is that "attentuation" is
direct and estimable, and you can look for that word in your table of
contents or index.
--
Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html
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