RELIABILITY COEFFICIENT

Reliability is reproducibility of a measurement if or when you repeat the measurement. It's crucial for clinicians because you need good reproducibility to monitor small but clinically important changes in an individual patient or client. It's crucial for researchers because you need good reproducibility to quantify such changes in controlled trials with samples of reasonable size.

Test Retest Reliability

To assess the consistency of a measure from one time to another

Same test , same or similar sample , different occasions

No

change in the construct we are measuring time between measures is critical shorter time gap ::: higher correlation

The

Pearsons r Correlation Coefficient

Example
Subject 1 2 3 4 5 6 Age x 43 21 25 42 57 59 Glucose Level y 99 65 79 75 87 81

Correlation Coefficient

Cronbachs alpha

Compute one split-half reliability and then randomly divide the items into another set of split halves and recompute keep doing this until have computed all possible split half estimates of reliability Cronbach's Alpha = average of all possible split-half estimates

Cronbachs alpha
[(N(N-1)] [(Total Variance sum of Individual Variance)/ Total Variance)]

Reliability Coefficient (Cronbachs alpha)

Cronbach's alpha .9 .9 > .8 .8 > .7 .7 > .6 .6 > .5 .5 >

Internal consistency Excellent Good Acceptable Questionable Poor Unacceptable

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