Multiple-Component Measurement Instruments in Heterogeneous Populations: Is There a Single Coefficient Alpha?

This note confronts the common use of a single coefficient alpha as an index informing about reliability of a multicomponent measurement instrument in a heterogeneous population. Two or more alpha coefficients could instead be meaningfully associated with a given instrument in finite mixture setting...

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Publicado en:	Educational & Psychological Measurement Vol. 79; no. 2; pp. 399 - 413
Autores principales:	Raykov, Tenko, Marcoulides, George A., Harrison, Michael, Menold, Natalja
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Sage Publications Inc. Apr2019
Materias:	Psychometrics Reliability (Personality trait) Empirical research Demographic characteristics Statistical correlation Finite element method High performance computing Latent structure analysis Mathematics Research methodology Research methodology evaluation Evaluation
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