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by nickmoberly
Wed Mar 02, 2011 12:53 pm
Forum: MLwiN user forum
Topic: Scale reliability: items within occasions within persons
Replies: 1
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Re: Scale reliability: items within occasions within persons

A-ha, I just checked (Snijders & Bosker, 1999, pp. 24-26) on 'Reliability of aggregated variables'.

For an empty two-level random-intercept model, where 'number of items' is Level 1 cluster size and constant:

Reliability = Level 2 var / (Level 2 var + [(Level 1 var)/number of items])

So I'm ...
by nickmoberly
Tue Mar 01, 2011 2:08 pm
Forum: MLwiN user forum
Topic: Scale reliability: items within occasions within persons
Replies: 1
Views: 15059

Scale reliability: items within occasions within persons

Hello all,

I would like to know the internal consistency reliability (Cronbach's alpha equivalent) of a five-item Likert scale that a sample of people fill out on ten occasions, taking into account the nested data structure.

One way this has been done (e.g., Nezlek & Gable, 2001) is to construct ...