Two coefficients of reliability of profiles have been suggested as multivariate extensions of the classical reliability coefficient: the average reliability of the components and the mean of the squared canonical correlations between the set of observed scores and the set of the latent true scores. It is shown that the former coefficient is identical to the mean redundancy of the observed variables conditional on the true variables.
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