Cronbach's alpha — get_cronbach • COINr

Calculates Cronbach's alpha, a measure of statistical reliability. Cronbach's alpha is a simple measure of "consistency" of a data set, where a high value implies higher reliability/consistency. The selection of indicators via get_data() allows to calculate the measure on any group of indicators or aggregates.

Usage

get_cronbach(coin, dset, iCodes, Level, ..., use = "pairwise.complete.obs")

Arguments

coin: A coin or a data frame containing only numerical columns of data.
dset: The name of the data set to apply the function to, which should be accessible in .$Data.
iCodes: Indicator codes to retrieve. If NULL (default), returns all iCodes found in the selected data set. See get_data().
Level: The level in the hierarchy to extract data from. See get_data().
...: Further arguments passed to get_data(), other than those explicitly specified here.
use: Argument to pass to stats::cor to calculate the covariance matrix. Default "pairwise.complete.obs".

Value

Cronbach alpha as a numerical value.

Details

This function simply returns Cronbach's alpha. If you want a lot more details on reliability, the 'psych' package has a much more detailed analysis.

This function replaces the now-defunct getCronbach() from COINr < v1.0.

Examples

# build example coin
coin <- build_example_coin(up_to = "new_coin", quietly = TRUE)

# Cronbach's alpha for the "P2P" group
get_cronbach(coin, dset = "Raw", iCodes = "P2P", Level = 1)
#> [1] 0.05126659