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Peer reviewedYin, Ping; Fan, Xitao – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2000
Performed a meta-analysis of reliability estimates for Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) (A. Beck and others, 1961) scores across studies. Only 7.5% of studies reviewed (n=1,200) reported meaningful reliability estimates. Analysis results suggest that standard errors of measurement should be considered in addition to reliability estimates when…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Error of Measurement, Estimation (Mathematics), Generalization
