Validity

Validity is a property of a logical argument.

Validity may also refer to:

Validity (statistics), the application of the principles of statistics to arrive at valid conclusions
Test validity, validity in educational and psychological testing
Internal validity, the validity of causal inferences within scientific studies, usually based on experiments
Statistical conclusion validity, establishes the existence and strength of the co-variation between the cause and effect variables
Construct validity, refers to whether a scale measures or correlates with the theorized psychological construct it measures
External validity, the validity of generalized causal inferences in scientific studies, usually based on experiments
Face validity, the property of a test intended to measure something
Predictive validity, the extent to which a score on a scale or test predicts scores on some other measure
Content validity, the extent to which a measure represents all facets of a given construct
Concurrent validity, the extent to which a test correlates with another measure
Discriminant validity, the degree to which results a test of one concept can be expected to differ from tests of other concepts that should not be correlated with this one
Convergent validity, the degree to which multiple measures of the same construct lead to the same conclusion
Representation validity, also known as translation validity
Criterion validity

See also