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Almehrizi, Rashid S. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2013
The majority of large-scale assessments develop various score scales that are either linear or nonlinear transformations of raw scores for better interpretations and uses of assessment results. The current formula for coefficient alpha (a; the commonly used reliability coefficient) only provides internal consistency reliability estimates of raw…
Descriptors: Raw Scores, Scaling, Reliability, Computation
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Dambolena, Ismael G.; Eriksen, Steven E.; Kopcso, David P. – PRIMUS, 2009
The logarithmic transformation is often used in regression analysis for a variety of purposes such as the linearization of a nonlinear relationship between two or more variables. We have noticed that when this transformation is applied to the response variable, the computation of the point estimate of the conditional mean of the original response…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Computation, Transformations (Mathematics), Statistical Bias