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Multilevel McDonald's Omega

Multilevel McDonald's omega estimates reliability at two distinct levels — within groups and between groups — for scales administered to individuals nested in clusters such as classrooms, teams, or organizations. It accounts for the non-independence induced by grouping and avoids the bias that single-level omega produces in clustered data.

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Sources

  1. Geldhof, G. J., Preacher, K. J., & Zyphur, M. J. (2014). Reliability estimation in a multilevel confirmatory factor analysis framework. Psychological Methods, 19(1), 72–91. DOI: 10.1037/a0032138
  2. McDonald, R. P. (1999). Test theory: A unified treatment. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN: 978-0805830750

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