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    Dr. Hooper:

    In their book, Psychometric Theory, Nunnally and Bernstein (1994) offer
    several good alternative methods for measuring reliability...see if their
    suggestions help.

    Steve Page, Ph.D.
    The Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation

    Dr David Michael Hooper wrote:

    > Hello,
    >
    > I am posting this on behalf of some students of mine. They have
    > conducted a reliability study in which three raters tested and
    > re-tested a group of twelve subjects on two different days.
    > Currently, they are attempting to calculate an intraclass correlation
    > coefficient (ICC) as described by Shrout and Fleiss (1979) and
    > Portney and Watkins (Book called 'Foundations of Clinical Research).
    >
    > Portney and Watkins state that you can use any variable in the
    > analysis.
    >
    > 'The specifice facets included in the demoninator will vary,
    > depending on whether rater, occasions, or some other facetis the
    > variable of interest in the reliability study. For example, if we
    > include rater as a facet, then the total observed variance, which, of
    > course, does not include direct estimates of true variabce (as this is
    > unknown). Theoretically, however, we can estimate true score variance
    > by looking at the difference between observed variance among subjects
    > and error variance. These estimates can be derived from an analysis
    > of varaince.'
    >
    > The example given in the text has four raters evaluating six subjects
    > on a single day. In calculating the ICC, the between subjects mean
    > square, error mean square and between raters mean square are taken
    > from a repeated measures ANOVA. We can follow this and reproduce
    > it quite easily by doing a repeated measures ANOVA with a single
    > effect of, RATER. Now in my students study, there are main effects
    > of both RATER and SESSION.. We can't decide which mean square terms
    > to use because there are also interactions involved.
    >
    > We could simplify it by calculating the ICCs separately for test 1
    > and test 2 but then lose the effect of session. Perhaps the study
    > isn't suited for ICCs.
    >
    > Anyone have any advice on how to approach this, or references that I
    > can point them to?
    >
    > Thank you,
    > David
    >
    > David M. Hooper, Ph.D.
    > Department of Rehabilitation Sciences
    > University of East London
    > Romford Road
    > London E15 4LZ
    > Phone 0181-590-7000 (4025)
    > d.m.hooper@uel.ac.uk
    >
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    Dr. Hooper:

    In their book, Psychometric Theory, Nunnally and Bernstein (1994)
    offer several good alternative methods for measuring reliability...see
    if their suggestions help.

    Steve Page, Ph.D.
    The Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation

    Dr David Michael Hooper wrote:
    Hello,

    I am posting this on behalf of some students of mine.  They have
    conducted a reliability study in which three raters tested and
    re-tested a group of twelve subjects on two different days.
    Currently, they are attempting to calculate an intraclass correlation
    coefficient (ICC) as described by Shrout and Fleiss (1979) and
    Portney and Watkins (Book called 'Foundations of Clinical Research).

    Portney and Watkins state that you can use any variable in the
    analysis.

    'The specifice facets included in the demoninator will vary,
    depending on whether rater, occasions, or some other facetis the
    variable of interest in the reliability study.  For example, if
    we
    include rater as a facet, then the total observed variance, which,
    of
    course, does not include direct estimates of true variabce (as this
    is
    unknown).  Theoretically, however, we can estimate true score
    variance
    by looking at the difference between observed variance among subjects
    and error variance.  These estimates can be derived from an analysis
    of varaince.'

    The example given in the text has four raters evaluating six subjects
    on a single day.  In calculating the ICC, the between subjects
    mean
    square, error mean square and between raters mean square are taken
    from a repeated measures ANOVA.  We can follow this and reproduce
    it quite easily by doing a repeated measures ANOVA with a single
    effect of, RATER.  Now in my students study, there are main effects
    of both RATER and SESSION..  We can't decide which mean square
    terms
    to use because there are also interactions involved.

    We could simplify it by calculating the ICCs separately  for test
    1
    and test 2 but then lose the effect of session.  Perhaps the study
    isn't suited for ICCs.

    Anyone have any advice on how to approach this, or references that I
    can point them to?

    Thank you,
    David

    David M. Hooper, Ph.D.
    Department of Rehabilitation Sciences
    University of East London
    Romford Road
    London E15 4LZ
    Phone 0181-590-7000 (4025)
    d.m.hooper@uel.ac.uk

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