A Comparison of Composite Reliability Estimators: Coefficient Omega Confidence Intervals in the Current Literature

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 436-453

  Padilla, Miguel A ^a   Divers, Jasmin ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

binary; bootstrap; coefficient omega; composite reliability; confidence interval; dichotomous; interval estimate; nonnormality; ordinal; reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964888207     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164415593776     Document Type: Article

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