Why Would We Expect the Correlation Coefficient for a Measure

question 36

Essay

Why would we expect the correlation coefficient for a measure of reliability to be positive?

---

Definitions:

Population Proportion

The fraction of individuals in a population who have a particular characteristic.

Confidence Intervals

A range of values, derived from sample data, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter, with a certain degree of confidence.

Point Estimates

Statistical measures that provide the best single estimation of an unknown population parameter.