Psychometric Theory by Jum C Nunnally

The classic text is Psychometric Theory. Like the previous edition, this text is designed as a comprehensive text in measurement for researchers and for use in graduate courses in psychology, education and areas of business such as management and marketing. It is intended to consider the broad measurement problems that arise in these areas and is written for a reader who needs only a basic background in statistics to comprehend the material. It also combines classical procedures that explain variance with modern inferential procedures.

Contents

• Introduction
• Traditional Approaches to Scaling
• Validity
• Elements of Statistical Description and Estimation
• Linear Combinations, Partial Correlation, Multiple Correlation, and Multiple Regression
• The Theory of Measurement Error
• The Assessment of Reliability
• Construction of Conventional Tests
• Special Problems in Classical Test Theory
• Recent Developments in Test Theory
• Factor Analysis I: The General Model and Variance Condensations
• Exploratory Factory Analysis II: Rotation and other Topics
• Conformatory Factor Analysis
• Profile Analysis, Discriminant Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling
• The Analysis of Categorical Data, Binary Classification, and Alternatives too Geometric Representations