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Bayesian Convergent Validity

Bayesian convergent validity applies Bayesian statistical inference to assess whether different measures of the same construct converge as theory predicts. Rather than a single-point correlation estimate, it yields a full posterior distribution over the convergent correlation, enabling probability statements about the magnitude of shared variance between theoretically related measures.

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  1. Levy, R. & Mislevy, R. J. (2016). Bayesian Psychometric Modeling. CRC Press. ISBN: 978-1466500952
  2. Van de Schoot, R., Depaoli, S., King, R., Kramer, B., Märtens, K., Tadesse, M. G., Vannucci, M., Gelman, A., Veen, D., Willemsen, J. & Yau, C. (2021). Bayesian statistics and modelling. Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 1(1), 1. DOI: 10.1038/s43586-020-00001-2

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