feldt: Obtain Feldt's classical congeneric reliability coefficient

In eunscho/reliacoef: Compute and Compare Unidimensional and Multidimensional Reliability Coefficients

Obtain Feldt's classical congeneric reliability coefficient

Description

Feldt's classical congeneric reliability (Feldt & Brennan 1989) is a unidimensional reliability coefficient based on a congeneric model. The congeneric model is a model that allows the length, discrimination, or importance of items to be different, and is the least restrictive model among the models derived from the classical test theory. The congeneric reliability proposed by Joreskog (1971) uses an optimization technique called maximum likelihood to estimate the "length" of an item. Classical congeneric reliablity uses a simpler logic, using the ratio of the sum of the covariance of the item to the sum of the total covariance as an estimate of the length of the item (Cho 2016).This coefficient is slightly less accurate than the Gilmer-Fedlt coefficient or congeneric reliability (Cho in press).

Usage

feldt(x)

Arguments

x	a dataframe or a matrix (unidimensional)

Value

classical congeneric reliability coefficient

References

Cho, E. (2016). Making reliability reliable: A systematic approach to reliability coefficients. Organizational Research Methods, 19(4), 651–682.

Cho, E. (in press). Neither Cronbach's alpha nor McDonald's omega: A comment on Sijtsma and Pfadt. Psychometrika.

Feldt, L. S., & Brennan, R. L. (1989). Reliability. In R. L. Linn (Ed.), Educational measurement (3rd ed., pp. 105–146). American Council on Education and Macmillan.

Jöreskog, K. G. (1971). Statistical analysis of sets of congeneric tests. Psychometrika, 36(2), 109–133.

See Also

[gilmer()] for the Gilmer-Fedlt coefficient

[joreskog()] for congeneric (unidimensional CFA) reliability

Examples

feldt(Graham1)

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