falissard wrote: > This test can be meaningfull, but only in rare circumstancies (are the items > (or raters) more consistent than what could be expected by chance?).
Do you have a reference to such a test? > I would do it with R using a bootstrap procedure (Efron & Tibshirani, An > introduction to the bootstrap, p.156). I agree. That should be possible, actually quite simple. Run through the data a large number of times, randomize the sequence of the observations for each case and compute alpha for each run. Tom +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Tom Backer Johnsen, Psychometrics Unit, Faculty of Psychology | | University of Bergen, Christies gt. 12, N-5015 Bergen, NORWAY | | Tel : +47-5558-9185 Fax : +47-5558-9879 | | Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.galton.uib.no/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html