Establishing behavioral correlates: The MMPI as a case study
1982
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Establishing behavioral correlates: The MMPI as a case study
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Two methods have been used to determine MMPI
behavioral correlates: the whole-sample and split-sample
techniques. The latter technique, which
splits a sample into half samples, is currently in use
because it ostensibly controls more adequately for
Type I errors by requiring significance in both half
samples. By simply adjusting the level of significance
for the whole-sample approach, however, it
can control for Type I errors as well as the split-sample
technique. Furthermore, the whole-sample
approach appears to control more adequately for
Type II errors than the split-sample technique. Finally,
data are presented suggesting that as an indicator
of the average result obtained by repeated
random splittings of a sample, results from the
whole-sample approach are preferable to those
from a single split of a sample. The whole-sample
method was thus recommended; however, the probability
of a Type I error for each correlate tested
should be set at values smaller than those currently
used.
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Green, Samuel B. (1982). Establishing behavioral correlates: The MMPI as a case study. Applied Psychological Measurement, 6, 219-224. doi:10.1177/014662168200600208
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