Transient Error or Specificity? An Alternative to the Staggered Equivalent Split-Half Procedure

Psychological Methods

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 225-238

  Vautier, Stéphane ^a   Jmel, Saïd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANXIETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0141640968     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.8.2.225     Document Type: Article

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