An Information-Theoretic Alternative to the Cronbach's Alpha Coecient of Item Reliability
E. Fokoué & N. Gündüz · Journal of Advances in Mathematics and Computer Science · 2016
We propose an information-theoretic alternative to the popular Cronbach alpha coefficient of item reliability. Particularly suitable for contexts in which instruments are scored on a strictly nonnumeric and non ordinal scale, our proposed index is based on functions of the entrop...
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10.9734/BJMCS/2016/23944