Demonstrating consistency in G-gap may be indicative of consistent underlying mechanisms rather than any such randomness, possibly reflecting a genetic or biochemical basis.
This may be indicative of internal consistency within a data set, i.e. less heterogeneity and more self-similarity among molecules within the clustered set.
The person reliability derived from Rasch model analysis was an indicative of internal consistency among all items within the same domain, which is analogous to the Cronbach's coefficient Alpha.
A summary of the internal reliability (inter-item consistency) and convergent validity derived from the CFA of the constructs can be found in Table 4. Values of composite reliability greater than 0.7 for established scales and 0.6 for new scales are indicative of internal consistency.
The internal consistency of the SOBDA questionnaire was assessed using Cronbach's alpha (scale from 0 to 1.0, with values ≥0.7 considered as indicative of internal consistency) [ 21, 22], for all patients in the run-in population who provided a score for each SOBDA item on the first day of the run-in period.
This is a number between 0 and 1, with values close to 1 indicative of better reliability/internal consistency, as indicated below.
Values of CR and αP larger than.7 were indicative of acceptable internal consistency for exploratory research (Gadermann et al. 2012; Maroco & Garcia-Marques 2006).
The authors used two estimates of internal consistency, a Spearman-Brown corrected correlation and coefficient alpha, to assess the reliability of the instrument; the resulting values were 0.80 and 0.77, respectively, interpreted as being indicative of satisfactory internal consistency.
One domain (Role Awareness) was excluded from further analysis due to a Cronbach's Alpha score <0.69, indicative of poor internal consistency between the statements within this particular domain.
There is a close proximity of the stoichiometry of the reactions at different pressures which may be indicative of a good trend of consistency in the reaction schemes.
