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Li, Jun Corser; Woodruff, David J. – 2002
Coefficient alpha is a simple and very useful index of test reliability that is widely used in educational and psychological measurement. Classical statistical inference for coefficient alpha is well developed. This paper presents two methods for Bayesian statistical inference for a single sample alpha coefficient. An approximate analytic method…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Markov Processes, Monte Carlo Methods, Reliability