5/30/2008

What does “reliability” mean?

reliability is the ability of a person or system to perform and maintain its functions in routine circumstances, as well as hostile or unexpected circumstances. In statistics, reliability is directly related to the accordance of a number of measurements.

There are four types of reliability: namely inter-rater or inter-observer reliability test-retest reliability parallel-forms reliability internal consistency reliability.

Inter-Rater or Inter-Observer Reliability

Inter-rater or inter-observer reliability is the evaluation of degrees which observers gives consistently to the same phenomenon.

Test-Retest Reliability

It means the measurement of a consistency from time to time.

Parallel-Forms Reliability

Evaluation of the consistency of the results of two tests held in the same way.

Internal Consistency Reliability

Evaluation of the consistency of results across items within a test.

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