New approaches to determining reliability and validity

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport

Volumn 71, Issue , 2000, Pages 129-136

  Linacre, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurement; Rating scales; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXERCISE; FITNESS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESEARCH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

DATA COLLECTION; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHYSICAL FITNESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034201935     PISSN: 02701367     EISSN: 21683824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02701367.2000.11082796     Document Type: Article

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