The greatest lower bound to the reliability of a test and the hypothesis of unidimensionality

DOI10.1007/BF02289858MaRDI QIDQ2260014zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jos M. F. ten Berge, Gregor Sočan

Publication date 5 March 2015

Published in Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02289858

zbMATH Keywords

congeneric testreliabilityunidimensionality of a test

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis (62H15) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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