Statistics in Kinesiology

1. Why are the measurement concepts of reliability and validity important to the research process? 2. What dangers might there be if researchers did not establish reliability and validity when testing hypotheses? 3. What are the different types of reliability? 4. How are the different types of reliability established? 5. How can reliability be increased? 6. How might a researcher establish validity? 7. What are the different types of validity evidence that can be collected? Explain each. 8. What is the relationship between reliability and validity? 9. How can a test be reliable and not valid? 10. How would a researcher go about ensuring reliability and validity?

11. What is the purpose of a correlation matrix and why are the diagonal pairs all equal to 1.0? 12. Are there other types of correlation coefficients? What are some examples provided in the text?