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Canonical Correlations with Fallible Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

William Meredith
William Meredith*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
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Abstract

The technique of canonical correlation may be used to determine the extent to which two sets of measurements reflect the same underlying traits. However, if the two sets are not perfectly reliable, the unreliability may obscure the fact that they are essentially dependent on similar processes. If we attempt to determine sets of weights so as to maximize the correlation between linear composites after correction for attenuation in the composites, it turns out that the results may be obtained by determining the canonical correlations and canonical regression weights between the true score components of the measures making up the two sets. In addition, formulas are developed for calculating the correlations between the canonical variates and original measures, both corrected and uncorrected for attenuation. A numerical example relating the verbal to the performance subtests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children is presented.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , March 1964 , pp. 55 - 65
Copyright
Copyright © 1964 Psychometric Society

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