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Peer reviewedHofmann, Richard J. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1979
The Guttman scale is discussed from the viewpoint of errors in response patterns. The errors are assumed to be distributed as a binomial. A double-barreled significance test is suggested having two probabilities: high probability and low probability. (Author)
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Hypothesis Testing, Probability, Psychometrics
