… 2 × 2 table we may calculate the kappa value. The value of a category kappa is a measure of
the agreement … The overall kappa is a weighted average of the m category kappas [15–17]. …

… detail in Table VI. We have shown that under the common correlation model, the normal
approximation in the distribution of Cohen's kappa is appropriate as long as true agreement is …

… agreement about base rates. Contrary to the views of recent critics of Cohen’s kappa, we argue
that Cohen’s kappa … the definition of the chance agreement rate for the (k × k) table is Σ{[Pi…

… , which would result in a 7 X 7 contingency table for the agreement analysis. Because it is
impractical to calculate kappa for such large contingency tables (Kraemer, 1992), we perform a …

… of Cohen’s κ is very simple and can be done from a contingency table using a basic calculator.
The upper limit of κ is +1.00, occurring when and only when the two raters agree perfectly…

… The rating assignments assigned by the two raters are shown in Table 1. The results
matrix of agreement and non-agreement derived from Table 1 are illustrated in Table 2. …

… less than perfect (1 .0) is a measure not only of agreement, but also of the reverse, disagree…
Table 3 can be simplified as follows: any kappa below 0 .60 indicates inadequate agreement …

… of an agreement table are nominal and the order in which the categories of a table are listed
is … As an example we consider the 4×4 agreement table presented in Table 1. There are five …

… In this paper we compare Cohen's kappa to three other agreement coefficients that have
been proposed in the literature. It … For each 34 data entries of Table 2 we observe the ordering …

… use of Cohen’s κ (kappa), Brennan and Prediger’s κ n , and the coefficient of raw agreement
for … triangle of an agreement table, analogous to the ra coefficients in the previous sections. …