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  • Loevinger's H and Guttman's errors in STATA

    Dear all, thanks in advance.
    I've got a question.
    I'm validating a questionnaire where I have three factors.
    For each of these factors I want to investigate internal homogeneity.
    At this purpose I'm using the command "loevh".
    I read that H values higher than 0.4 are considered acceptable.
    Anyway I don't understand the test of Guttamn's errors (exepected vs observed). What does it tell us?
    How to interpretate the p value?
    Does anyone know it?

    I thank you all.
    Gianfranco

    . loevh q1 q2 q10 q13 q18
    Observed Expected Number
    Mean Guttman Guttman Loevinger H0: Hj<=0 of NS
    Item Obs Score errors errors H coeff z-stat. p-value Hjk
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    q1 116 3.7672 229 444.75 0.48510 9.5657 0.00000 0
    q2 116 3.4052 305 513.23 0.40573 8.0033 0.00000 0
    q10 116 3.9828 281 441.07 0.36291 7.3216 0.00000 0
    q13 116 3.9914 251 435.03 0.42302 8.5137 0.00000 0
    q18 116 3.8707 268 473.20 0.43364 8.7006 0.00000 0
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Scale 116 667 1153.64 0.42183 13.2764 0.00000



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