Interval estimation of the kappa coefficient with binary classification and an equal marginal probability model

Biometrics

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 583-585

  Nam, Jun Mo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Expected coverage probability; Expected length of interval; Interval estimation; Intraclass correlation; Kappa coefficient of agreement; Score method

Indexed keywords

COVERAGE PROBABILITIES; EXPECTED COVERAGE PROBABILITY; EXPECTED LENGTH; EXPECTED LENGTH OF INTERVAL; INTERVAL ESTIMATION; INTRACLASS CORRELATIONS; KAPPA COEFFICIENT; KAPPA COEFFICIENT OF AGREEMENT; LENGTH OF INTERVALS; SCORE METHOD;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0033918630     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2000.00583.x     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Bartlett, M. S. (1953). Approximate confidence interval. II. More than one unknown parameter. Biometrika 40, 306 317.
2. Cohen, J. (1960). A coefficient of agreement for nominal scales. Educational and Psychological Measurement 20, 37-46.
3. Cox, D. R. and Hinkley, D. V. (1974). Theoretical Statistics. New York: Wiley.
4. Donner, A. and Eliasziw, M. (1992). A goodness-of-fit approach to inference procedures for the kappa statistic: Confidence interval construction, significance-testing and sample size estimation. Statistics in Medicine 11, 1511-1519.
5. Gart, J. J. and Nam, J. (1988). Approximate interval estimation of the ratio of binomial parameters: A review and correction for skewness. Biometrics 44, 323-338.
6. Hale, C. A. and Fleiss, J. L. (1993). Interval estimation under two study designs for kappa with binary classifications. Biometrics 49, 523-534.
7. Scott, W. A. (1955). Reliability of content analysis: The case of nominal scale coding. Public Opinion Quarterly 19, 321-325.