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Bandalos, Deborah L.; Enders, Craig K. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1996
Computer simulation indicated that reliability increased with the degree of similarity between underlying and observed distributions when the observed categorical distribution was deliberately constructed to match the shape of the underlying distribution of the trait being measured. Reliability also increased with correlation among variables and…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Correlation, Likert Scales, Reliability