Meeting assumptions in the estimation of reliability

• Autores: Brian P. Shaw
• Localización: The Stata journal, ISSN 1536-867X, Vol. 21, Nº. 4, 2021, págs. 1021-1027
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Researchers and psychometricians have long used Cronbach’s α as a measure of reliability. However, there have been growing calls to replace Cron- bach’s α with measures that have more defensible assumptions. One of the most common and straightforward recommended reliability estimates is ω. After a re- view of reliability and its estimation in Stata, I introduce the community-contributed command omegacoef. This command reports McDonald’s ω in a format similar to the base alpha command. omegacoef provides Stata users the ability to easily compute estimates of reliability with the confidence that the necessary statistical assumptions are met.