A new method for estimating the variance overlap between the short and the long form of a psychological test

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 380-388

  Pfeiffer, Nils ^a   Hagemann, Dirk ^a   Backenstrass, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

guidelines; NMR Scale; randomization; short form; variance overlap

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952928171     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164410386782     Document Type: Article

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