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Attenuation and Interaction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Quinn McNemar*
Affiliation:
Stanford University

Abstract

A significance test is proposed for determining whether a correlation coefficient is less than unity by an amount greater than that attributable to errors of measurement.

Type
Original Paper
Copyright
Copyright © 1958 The Psychometric Society

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