Cronbach's , Revelle's , and McDonald's _h: their relations with each other and two alternative conceptualizations of reliability

DOI10.1007/S11336-003-0974-7MaRDI QIDQ2260068zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Richard E. Zinbarg, William Revelle, Iftah Yovel, Wen Li

Publication date 5 March 2015

Published in Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-003-0974-7

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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