Cohen's kappa is a weighted average

DOI10.1016/J.STAMET.2011.06.002zbMATH Open1248.62227OpenAlexW2064848794MaRDI QIDQ713898FDOQ713898

Authors: Matthijs J. Warrens 

Publication date: 19 October 2012

Published in: Statistical Methodology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/18062

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• Conditional inequalities between Cohen's kappa and weighted kappas

zbMATH Keywords

inter-rater reliabilitynominal agreementGoodman and Kruskal's lambdaScott's pipartitioning categories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contingency tables (62H17) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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• The effect of combining categories on Bennett, Alpert and Goldstein's \(S\)
• Weighted kappas for \(3 \times 3\) tables
• Kappa coefficients for dichotomous-nominal classifications
• Kappa coefficients for circular classifications
• Cohen's linearly weighted kappa is a weighted average of \(2\times 2\) kappas
• Conditional inequalities between Cohen's kappa and weighted kappas
• Equivalences of weighted kappas for multiple raters
• Cohen's linearly weighted kappa is a weighted average
• Cohen's kappa can always be increased and decreased by combining categories
• Properties of Bangdiwala's \(B\)
• Symmetric kappa as a function of unweighted kappas
• New interpretations of Cohen's kappa

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