Beyond the Spearman-Brown: A structural approach to maximal reliability

Psychological Methods

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 214-227

  Drewes, Donald W ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0034199747     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.5.2.214     Document Type: Article

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