Re: Cronbach's alpha and sample size

2001-03-06 Thread Nicolas Sander
Dear Gregor, thank you very much for your comments. Due to possibly existing general interest I post this message also in sci.stat.edu. "Gregor Socan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote You obviously should not use coefficient alpha. First, if an exclusion of some people causes such a change, then

Re: Cronbach's alpha and sample size

2001-03-01 Thread Nicolas Sander
Thank you all for the helping answers. I had the problem of obtaining negative Alphas, when some subjects where excluded from analyses (three out of ten). When they were included, I had alphas of .65 to .75 (N items =60). The problem is - as I suspect - that the average interitem correlation is

Re: Cronbach's alpha and sample size

2001-02-28 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:08:55 +0100, Nicolas Sander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How is Cronbach's alpha affected by the sample size apart from questions related to generalizability issues? - apart from generalizability, "not at all." Ifind it hard to trace down the mathmatics related to this