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	বহুদলীয় পরীক্ষা-পুনঃপরীক্ষা নির্ভরযোগ্যতা	মাল্টি-গ্রুপ ক্রোনব্যাকের আলফা
ক্ষেত্র	মনোমিতি	মনোমিতি
পরিবার	Latent structure	Latent structure
উদ্ভবের বছর	1979–2000	1951 (alpha); multi-group application from 1980s onward
প্রবর্তক	Systematic multi-group extensions developed alongside measurement invariance frameworks (Vandenberg & Lance, 2000); intraclass correlation foundation in Shrout & Fleiss (1979)	Lee J. Cronbach (alpha); multi-group extension in cross-cultural and measurement invariance research
ধরন	Reliability estimation across groups	Reliability / internal consistency comparison
মৌলিক উৎস	Shrout, P. E. & Fleiss, J. L. (1979). Intraclass correlations: Uses in assessing rater reliability. Psychological Bulletin, 86(2), 420–428.	Cronbach, L. J. (1951). Coefficient alpha and the internal structure of tests. Psychometrika, 16(3), 297–334.
অপর নাম	multi-group temporal stability, cross-group test-retest reliability, group-comparative retest reliability, multi-sample temporal consistency	group-stratified alpha, cross-group alpha comparison, subgroup internal consistency, MG-alpha
সম্পর্কিত	5	4
সারসংক্ষেপ	Multi-group test-retest reliability evaluates whether a measure produces stable scores across time separately for two or more defined groups — such as different genders, age cohorts, or clinical populations — and determines whether the degree of that temporal stability is equivalent across those groups.	Multi-group Cronbach's alpha estimates and compares the internal consistency reliability of a scale separately within each of two or more defined subgroups. It is used in cross-cultural, demographic, and comparative psychometric research to establish that a scale measures its construct with equivalent precision across groups before making cross-group comparisons.