Stability of questionnaire items in sport and exercise psychology: Bootstrap limits of agreement

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 725-734

  Wilson, Karen ^a   Batterham, Alan ^a  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Consistency; Precision; Proportion; Resampling; Test retest reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPORTS MEDICINE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; BODY IMAGE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLING STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0032854033     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026404199365588     Document Type: Article

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