Psychiatric research has benefited from attention to measurement theories of reliability, and
reliability/agreement statistics for psychopathology ratings and diagnoses are regularly …

In 1960, Cohen introduced the kappa coefficient to measure chance‐corrected nominal
scale agreement between two raters. Since then, numerous extensions and generalizations …

Praise for the Second Edition" A must-have book for anyone expecting to do research and/or
applications in categorical data analysis."—Statistics in Medicine" It is a total delight reading …

This chapter on the latent class model has three purposes: The latent class model (LCM) is
introduced in a way that assumes little prior knowledge of the model. This introduction does …

Objective: Qualitative research is increasingly valued as part of the evidence for policy and
practice, but how it should be appraised is contested. Various appraisal methods, including …

Kappa coefficients are measures of correlation between categorical variables often used as
reliability or validity coefficients. We recapitulate development and definitions of the K …

Ordinal Data Modeling is a comprehensive treatment of ordinal data models from both
likelihood and Bayesian perspectives. Written for graduate students and researchers in the …

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

The focus of this book is on models for contingency table analysis. It deals mainly with log-
linear models and special models for ordinal data (log-linear or nonlinear). Special models …

This book describes the principles and techniques needed to analyze data that form a
multiway contingency table. Wickens discusses the description of association in such data …