Correction for attenuation with biased reliability estimates and correlated errors in populations and samples

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 920-939

  Zimmerman, Donald W ^a,b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Correction for attenuation; Correlated errors; Error of measurement; Error scores; Observed scores; Population; Reliability; Sample; Spearman attenuation formula; True scores

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148941662     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164406299132     Document Type: Article

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