… weighted kappa in terms of rater means, rater variances, and the rater covariance that is
particularly helpful in emphasizing that weighted kappa … the value of weighted kappa relative to …

… weighting scheme is given. In the present paper, a new simple and practical interpretation of
the linear- and quadratic-weighted kappa … in motivating their choice of a weighting scheme. …

… If we fix r, then (12) provides us with m Bloch-Kraemer weighted kappas for describing
the agreement between the observers, one for each category. Lemma 14 shows that a …

… different disagreements are differentially weighted, the weighted Kappa (K,) by … Kappa-based
weighted measure (K,,) of agreement on some specific category s, with K, being a weighted …

… 2\) kappas. In Sect. 4 we show that this weighted kappa is the only weighted kappa that is a
… (Vanbelle and Albert 2009), the linearly weighted kappa \(\kappa _l\) can be interpreted as a …

… ) of Cohen’s weighted kappa with linear weights can be obtained from the … weighted kappa
with linear weights can be interpreted as a weighted average of the linearly weighted kappas …

… scales, kappa, treats all disagreements equally. A generalization to weighted kappa (Kw) is
… (or agreements of varying degree) are weighted accordingly. Although providing for partial …

… show that the interpretation of the κ -value as an “average” value is much broader than a
weighted average of 2×2 kappas. It turns out that the overall κ -value is a weighted average of κ -…

… have been justified by the fact that the corresponding weighted kappa is … linear weights
and shows that the corresponding weighted kappa is equivalent to the unweighted kappa when …

… of Kappa statistics, as well as the computation, interpretation, and … weighted Kappa is
frequently utilized as a measure [9]. Weighted Kappa comes in two forms: linear weighted Kappa (…