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Concept
Repeatability
Summary
Repeatability or test–retest reliability is the closeness of the agreement between the results of successive measurements of the same measure, when carried out under the same conditions of measurement. In other words, the measurements are taken by a single person or instrument on the same item, under the same conditions, and in a short period of time. A less-than-perfect test–retest reliability causes test–retest variability. Such variability can be caused by, for example, intra-individual variability and inter-observer variability. A measurement may be said to be repeatable when this variation is smaller than a pre-determined acceptance criterion.
Test–retest variability is practically used, for example, in medical monitoring of conditions. In these situations, there is often a predetermined "critical difference", and for differences in monitored values that are smaller than this critical difference, the possibility of variability as a sole cause of the difference may be considered in addition to, for example, changes in diseases or treatments.
The following conditions need to be fulfilled in the establishment of repeatability:
the same experimental tools
the same observer
the same measuring instrument, used under the same conditions
the same location
repetition over a short period of time.
same objectives
Repeatability methods were developed by Bland and Altman (1986).
If the correlation between separate administrations of the test is high (e.g. 0.7 or higher as in this Cronbach's alpha-internal consistency-table), then it has good test–retest reliability.
The repeatability coefficient is a precision measure which represents the value below which the absolute difference between two repeated test results may be expected to lie with a probability of 95%.
The standard deviation under repeatability conditions is part of precision and accuracy.
An attribute agreement analysis is designed to simultaneously evaluate the impact of repeatability and reproducibility on accuracy.
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