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 …

The Cohen kappa is probably the most widely used measure of agreement. Measuring the
degree of agreement or disagreement in square contingency tables by two raters is mostly of …

The Kappa coefficient is widely used in assessing categorical agreement between two raters
or two methods. It can also be extended to more than two raters (methods). When using …

Kappa‐like agreement indexes are often used to assess the agreement among examiners
on a categorical scale. They have the particularity of correcting the level of agreement for the …

Agreement between raters for binary outcome data is typically assessed using the kappa
coefficient. There has been considerable recent work extending logistic regression to …

Cohen's κ measures the improvement in classification above chance level and it is the most
popular measure of interjudge agreement. Yet, there is considerable confusion about its …

The Fleiss' kappa statistic is a well-known index for assessing the reliability of agreement
between raters. It is used both in the psychological and in the psychiatric field. Unfortunately …

Many studies in biomedical fields are carried out using diagnoses reported by different
raters to evaluate the agreement of multiple ratings. The most popular indices of agreement …

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 …

Agreement coefficients quantify how well a set of instruments agree in measuring some
response on a population of interest. Many standard agreement coefficients (eg kappa for …