A method to evaluate performance reliability of individual subjects in laboratory research applied to work settings.

Details

• Creators:
  Jennings, Alan E.
• Corporate Creators:
  Civil Aeromedical Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Office of Aviation Medicine
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Laboratory studies
  • Human subject testing
  • Experiments
  • Performance measurement
  • Reliability (Statistics)
  • Analysis of variance
  • Methodology
  • Formulas
  • Mathematical prediction
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FAA-AM-78-37 ; DOT/FAA/AM-78/37
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-AVIATION-AVIATION
• Abstract:
  This report presents a method that may be used to evaluate the reliability of performance of individual subjects, particularly in applied laboratory research. The method is based on analysis of variance of a tasks-by-subjects data matrix, with all scores standardized. If all tasks are parallel, then the average correlation among tasks is an inverse function of the within-subject variance, which may be computed for any individual subject or group of subjects. The formula for determining the relationship between within-subject variance and average correlation is developed and a method of testing the reliability of individual subjects against the general level of reliability is presented. Possible applications of the method are noted.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/21147/dot_21147_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 793.34 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection ; FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:52efb0ee5ba1364e59355f1cd519f441e32c6ee0ca8471594cad13380a122a46cd112781f678d8ce65b365cd579f9779010167a3019d4ed5130c47f9d3cba1ce