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Lecture 4: Principles of Psychometrics: Reliability II - jhsph ocw

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=<br />

MSB −<br />

pilot<br />

MSB<br />

Solution 2<br />

MSW<br />

pilot<br />

There is inherent assumption here that the national<br />

sample will have the same makeup with regard to<br />

severity. If that’s not so, then the reliability may<br />

drop because the between-person variance in the<br />

national sample was lower than it was in the pilot<br />

sample, while the within-person variance was<br />

presumably about the same.

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