Recognize the value of the sum score, psychometrics' greatest accomplishment

DOI10.1007/S11336-024-09964-7zbMATH Open1541.62341MaRDI QIDQ6572329FDOQ6572329

Authors: Klaas Sijtsma, Jules L. Ellis, Denny Borsboom 

Publication date: 15 July 2024

Published in: Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

reliabilityitem response theorylatent variablenetwork modelssum scorefactor analysis modelclassical test theorylower bound to reliability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis (62H25) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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