Skew and internal consistency

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1351-1358

  Greer, Tammy ^a   Dunlap, William P ^b,d   Hunter, Samuel T ^c   Berman, Mitchell E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

Internal consistency; Monte Carlo simulation; Skew

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33750994921     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.91.6.1351     Document Type: Article

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