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Zhang, Zhiyong; Yuan, Ke-Hai – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2016
Cronbach's coefficient alpha is a widely used reliability measure in social, behavioral, and education sciences. It is reported in nearly every study that involves measuring a construct through multiple items. With non-tau-equivalent items, McDonald's omega has been used as a popular alternative to alpha in the literature. Traditional estimation…
Descriptors: Computation, Statistical Analysis, Robustness (Statistics), Error of Measurement
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Zhang, Zhiyong; Yuan, Ke-Hai – Grantee Submission, 2016
Cronbach's coefficient alpha is a widely used reliability measure in social, behavioral, and education sciences. It is reported in nearly every study that involves measuring a construct through multiple items. With non-tau-equivalent items, McDonald's omega has been used as a popular alternative to alpha in the literature. Traditional estimation…
Descriptors: Computation, Error of Measurement, Robustness (Statistics), Statistical Analysis
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Tong, Xin; Zhang, Zhiyong – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2012
Growth curve models with different types of distributions of random effects and of intraindividual measurement errors for robust analysis are compared. After demonstrating the influence of distribution specification on parameter estimation, 3 methods for diagnosing the distributions for both random effects and intraindividual measurement errors…
Descriptors: Models, Robustness (Statistics), Statistical Analysis, Error of Measurement