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Messick, David M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1982
Formulae and graphs are presented allowing computation of the variances of three prototypical distributions over a finite number of categories. The uses of the variances of the maximum variance distribution, the uniform distribution and a unimodal triangular distribution to make inferences about distribution shapes are shown in several examples.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Hypothesis Testing, Responses, Statistical Analysis