SMALL SAMPLE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION OF STEPPED-UP RELIABILITY COEFFICIENTS BASED ON SPLIT-HALVES

Abstract

Maximum-likelihood estimates of stepped-up reliability coefficients are developed and their sampling distributions derived. These estimates turn out to be biased. So new unbiased estimates are developed with even smaller sampling variances and recommended for general use whenever some statistical assumptions about the test halves hold. Finally, some statistical tests based on the sampling distributions are described. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0285145

Entities

People

  • Walter Kristof

Organizations

  • Educational Testing Service

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coefficients
  • Data Science
  • Frequency
  • Information Science
  • Reliability
  • Sampling
  • Statistical Tests

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Regression Analysis.