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Spearman-Brown prophecy formula

psychological testing
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  • Rorschach test
    psychological testing
    / Primary characteristics of methods or instruments

    …by the use of the Spearman-Brown prophecy formula (for estimating the increased reliability expected to result from increase in test length). More commonly used is a generalization of this stepped-up, split-half reliability estimate, one of the Kuder-Richardson formulas. This formula provides an average of estimates that would result from all…

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    …by the use of the Spearman-Brown prophecy formula (for estimating the increased reliability expected to result from increase in test length). More commonly used is a generalization of this stepped-up, split-half reliability estimate, one of the Kuder-Richardson formulas. This formula provides an average of estimates that would result from all…

    Read More