calculating reliability

2001-03-21 Thread Awahab El-Naggar
Dear Colleagues I have been using "test-retest" method for calculating reliability by applying the Pearson Product Moment (PPM) analysis. However, I have been told that this not the right way to calculate reliability, and I should use the ANOVA to calculate the reliability. Would you comment and a

Re: calculating reliability

2001-03-21 Thread Will Hopkins
The best measure of reliability is the standard error of measurement. It's really the same as the within-subject standard deviation (SD you expect to get when retesting a subject many times), but you take out any change in the mean between trials. For any reasonable sample size and two trials