Cohen's linearly weighted kappa is a weighted average

DOI10.1007/s11634-011-0094-7zbMath1284.62348OpenAlexW2161662311MaRDI QIDQ1761313

Matthijs J. Warrens

Publication date: 15 November 2012

Published in: Advances in Data Analysis and Classification. ADAC (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11634-011-0094-7

zbMATH Keywords

Cohen's kappainter-rater agreementquadratic weightsmerging categorieslinear weightssubtables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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