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 …

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 …

The need to assess agreement exists in various clinical studies where quantifying inter‐rater
reliability is of great importance. Use of unscaled agreement indices, such as total deviation …

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 …

This paper proposes several Concordance Correlation Coefficient (CCC) indices to
measure the agreement among k raters, with each rater having multiple (m) readings from …

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 …

Objective: In this study, a condition of diagnostic test only two categories as patient/healthy
(or positive/negative) is evaluated by two clinicians is considered. Additionally, the aim of …

Agreement among at least two evaluators is an issue of prime importance to statisticians,
clinicians, epidemiologists, psychologists, and many other scientists. Measuring …

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 …

In clinical studies, assessing agreement of multiple readings on the same subject plays an
important role in the evaluation of continuous measurement scale. The multiple readings …