Chance corrected agreement coefficients such as the Cohen and Fleiss Kappas are
commonly used for the measurement of consistency in the decisions made by clinical …

Measurement of consistency in the decisions made by observers or raters is an important
problem in clinical medicine. Chance corrected agreement coefficients such as the Cohen …

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 …

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 …

Most measures of agreement are chance-corrected. They differ in three dimensions: their
definition of chance agreement, their choice of disagreement function, and how they handle …

Most currently used measures of inter‐rater agreement for the nominal case incorporate a
correction for 'chance agreement.'The definition of chance agreement is not the same for all …

Inter-rater agreement measures are used to estimate the degree of agreement between two
or more assessors. When the agreement table is ordinal, different weight functions that …

As measures of interobserver agreement for both nominal and ordinal categories, Cohen's
kappa coefficients appear to be the most widely used with simple and meaningful …

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 …

Chance‐corrected measures of agreement are prone to exhibit paradoxical and counter‐
intuitive results when used as measures of reliability. It is demonstrated that these problems …