Journal article
Strategies to Manipulate Reliability: Impact on Statistical Associations
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To examine the effects of improving measurement reliability on associations between risk factors and childhood psychiatric disorder.
METHOD: Data were from a general population sample of parents (N = 211) with children aged 6 to 16 years. Reliability of measurement was improved in three ways: by increasing the number of items in a scale (internal-consistency reliability), by averaging assessments of the same variables collected on …
Authors
BOYLE MH; PICKLES AR
Journal
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Vol. 37, No. 10, pp. 1077–1084
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
October 1998
DOI
10.1097/00004583-199810000-00018
ISSN
0890-8567