On robustness of the normal-theory based asymptotic distributions of three reliability coefficient estimates

Psychometrika

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 251-259

  Yuan, Ke Hai ^a   Bentler, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Cronbach's alpha; Kurtosis; Maximal reliability; Pseudo normal distributions; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036347741     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02294845     Document Type: Article

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