What to Do With "Moderate" Reliability and Validity Coefficients?

Marcel W. Post

doi:10.1016/j.apmr.2016.04.001

What to Do With "Moderate" Reliability and Validity Coefficients?

Marcel W. Post^*

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EXtremities Pain Active lifestyle aNd Disability (EXPAND)

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Abstract

Clinimetric studies may use criteria for test-retest reliability and convergent validity such that correlation coefficients as low as .40 are supportive of reliability and validity. It can be argued that moderate (.40-.60) correlations should not be interpreted in this way and that reliability coefficients

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1051-1052
Number of pages	2
Journal	Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume	97
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2016.04.001
Publication status	Published - Jul-2016

Keywords

Outcome assessment (health care)
Psychometrics
Rehabilitation
Validation studies as topic

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