Variance of means versus mean of variances: A contrarian view on operationalizing group dispersion

Academy of Management 2005 Annual Meeting: A New Vision of Management in the 21st Century, AOM 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Sin, Hock Peng ^a   Newman, Daniel A ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Within group agreement; Within group dispersion; Within group variance

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL TESTS; GROUP DISPERSIONS; ITEM-LEVEL; WITHIN-GROUP VARIANCE;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 84859055096     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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