Bayesian inference for kappa from single and multiple studies

Biometrics

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 577-582

  Basu, Sanjib ^a   Banerjee, Mousumi ^b   Sen, Ananda ^c  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Cohen's kappa; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Pooled kappa; Test of homogeneity

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; INFERENCE ENGINES; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; COHEN'S KAPPAS; FREQUENTIST; KAPPA COEFFICIENT; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE-CARLO; NOMINAL SCALE; POOLED KAPPA; TEST OF HOMOGENEITY;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RATING SCALE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033919592     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2000.00577.x     Document Type: Article

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