reliability

Introduction

• the degree to which the result of a measurement, calculation, or specification can be depended on to be accurate.

• the extent to which an experiment, test, or measuring procedure yields the same results on repeated trials (reproducible)

• level of evidence is used to assess reliability in medical research where measurements may be used indirectly to address a hypothesis but are not the direct determinants

More general terms

• statistics (biostatistics)

More specific terms

• Cronbach's alpha
• interobserver reliability
• level of evidence
• test-retest reliability