title: Ten measurement commandments that often should be broken.
abstract: Many of the measurement aspects of nursing research have been governed by rules regarding the minimum values of certain summary indexes (such as Cronbach's coefficient alpha and Cohen's kappa), the required numbers of subjects per item for factor analyses, and the like. In this article a case is made for violating these rules whenever the circumstances warrant such violations.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210, USA.
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Knapp
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data