Part II: On the use, the misuse, and the very limited usefulness of Cronbach's alpha: discussing lower bounds and correlated errors

DOI10.1007/S11336-021-09789-8MaRDI QIDQ2073728zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Klaas Sijtsma, Julius M. Pfadt

Publication date 7 February 2022

Published in Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-021-09789-8

zbMATH Keywords

correlated errorsclassical test theoryreliability lower boundscoefficient \(\alpha \)Cronbach's \(\alpha \)discrepancy of parametersestimation bias of coefficient \(\alpha \)factor-analysis approach to reliability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reliability and life testing (62N05) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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