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Binding; possessing legal force or strength; legally sufficient.

A valid contract, for example, is one that has been executed in compliance with all the requisite legal formalities and is binding upon, and enforceable by, the individuals who executed it.


VALID. An act, deed, will, and the like, which has received all the formalities required by law, is said to be valid or good in law.


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The criterion-related validities (for studies reported in the manual) varied a great deal.
Evidence is provided in the form of extremely high reliabilities of the 10 scales, the similarly high concurrent validities shown by correlations with a wide range of other instruments, and the support for the discriminant validity provided by both the scale correlation matrix and the CFA analyses.
1) To ensure that a measure is properly used in both research and clinical settings, it is critical to examine the discriminative and predictive validities and the evaluative properties of the measure.
 
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