Tichu is a popular trick-taking climbing card game that involves strong strategic play along with elements of chance. Apart from the typical search-based methods that employ domain-dependent or domain-independent mechanisms for selecting the most promising action at each step of the game, the complex dynamics that arise from the team-play feature of Tichu suggests the use of agent-based techniq...

The current paper describes and illustrates three things: (a) sampling variance and confidence intervals for Cronbach’s Alpha, (b) the relative precision of reliability estimates from local studies and meta-analyses, and (c) how to blend the local and metaanalytic information to create an optimal local reliability estimate according to Bayesian principles. The paper is not about artifact correc...