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Impact on Cronbach's alpha of simple treatment methods for missing data

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Doi: 10.20982/tqmp.12.1.p057

Béland, Sébastien , Pichette, Francois , Jolani, S.
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Keywords: Cronbachs alpha coefficient , Missing data , Missing completely at random , Missing at random , Simulation study
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The scientific treatment of missing data has been the subject of research for nearly a century. Strangely, interest in missing data is quite new in the fields of educational science and psychology (Peugh & Enders, 2004; Schafer & Graham, 2002). It is now important to better understand how various common methods for dealing with missing data can affect well-used psychometric coefficients. The purpose of this study is to compare the impact of ten common fill-in methods on Cronbachs alpha (1951). We use simulation studies to investigate the behavior of alpha in various situations. Our results show that multiple imputation is the most effective method. Furthermore, simple imputation methods like Winer imputation, item mean, and total mean are interesting alternatives for specific situations. These methods can be easily used by non-statisticians such as teachers and school psychologists.

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