A note on interval estimation of kappa in a series of 2 x 2 tables

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 2041-2049

  Lui, Kung Jong ^a   Kelly, Colleen ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; VITREORETINOPATHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OBSERVER VARIATION;

EID: 0033566855     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990815)18:15<2041::AID-SIM167>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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