Neither Cronbach's alpha nor McDonald's omega: a commentary on Sijtsma and Pfadt

DOI10.1007/s11336-021-09801-1zbMath1480.62233OpenAlexW3198036680MaRDI QIDQ2073732

Eunseong Cho

Publication date: 7 February 2022

Published in: Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-021-09801-1

zbMATH Keywords

Cronbach's alphacoefficient alphacoefficient omegaclassical test theorycongeneric reliabilitytau-equivalent reliability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Reliability and life testing (62N05) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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Uses Software

• psych
• LISREL
• Lambda4

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