Estimating the effect of changes in criterion score reliability on the power of the f test of equality of means

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 420-430

  Feldt, Leonard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

noncentral F; power; reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952911992     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164410375572     Document Type: Article

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