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 …

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 …

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 …

Background: Many methods under the umbrella of inter-rater agreement (IRA) have been
proposed to evaluate how well two or more medical experts agree on a set of outcomes. The …

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 …

Background In inter-rater agreement studies, the assessment behaviour of raters can be
influenced by their experience, training levels, the degree of willingness to take risks, and …

Cohen's kappa and intraclass kappa are widely used for assessing the degree of agreement
between two raters with binary outcomes. However, many authors have pointed out its …

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 …

Scott's pi and Cohen's kappa are widely used for assessing the degree of agreement
between two raters with binary outcomes. However, many authors have pointed out its …

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 …