Statistical extensions of ponterotto and ruckdeschel's (2007) reliability matrix for estimating the adequacy of internal consistency coefficients

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 878-886

  Ponterotto, Joseph G ^a   Charter, Richard A ^b  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 70350438593     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: 00315125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.108.3.878-886     Document Type: Article

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