Background: Cohen's κ coefficient is often used as an index to measure the agreement of
inter-rater determinations. However, κ varies greatly depending on the marginal distribution …

Background Cohen's κ coefficient is often used as an index to measure the agreement of
inter-rater determinations. However, κ varies greatly depending on the marginal distribution …

Everyone agrees there are problems with currently available agreement coefficients.
Cohen's weighted Kappa does not extend to multiple raters, and does not adjust for both …

Cohen's kappa and intraclass kappa are widely used for assessing the degree of agreement
between two raters with binary outcomes. However, many authors have pointed out its …

Assessing agreement between the examiners, measurements and instruments are always of
interest to health-care providers as the treatment of patients is highly dependent on the …

Objective: Determining how similarly multiple raters evaluate behavior is an important
component of observational research. Multiple interrater agreement statistics have been …

Scott's pi and Cohen's kappa are widely used for assessing the degree of agreement
between two raters with binary outcomes. However, many authors have pointed out its …

In this chapter, we generalize agreement assessment for continuous and categorical data to
cover multiple raters (k≥ 2), and each with multiple readings (m≥ 1) from each of the n …

Estimation of the degree of agreement between different raters is of crucial importance in
medical and social sciences. There are lots of different approaches proposed in the …

Agreement analysis is an important tool that has been widely used in medical, social,
biological, physical and behavioral sciences. Though there are many different ways of …