Rcmdr (version 0.9-2)

reliability: Reliability of a Composite Scale

Description

Calculates Cronbach's alpha and standardized alpha (lower bounds on reliability) for a composite (summated-rating) scale. Standardized alpha is for the sum of the standardized items. In addition, the function calculates alpha and standardized alpha for the scale with each item deleted in turn, and computes the correlation between each item and the sum of the other items.

Usage

reliability(S)

Arguments

S
the covariance matrix of the items

Value

  • The function does not return a useful value; it is called for its side effect -- to print the results.

References

N. Cliff (1986) Psychological testing theory. Pp. 343--349 in S. Kotz and N. Johnson, eds., Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Vol. 7. Wiley.

See Also

cov

Examples

Run this code
data(DavisThin)
reliability(cov(DavisThin))

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