The effect of collapsing multinomial data when assessing agreement

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1070-1075

  Bartfay, E ^a,b,c   Donner, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agreement; Confidence interval; Epidemiological studies; Kappa statistic; Sample size

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034531760     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/29.6.1070     Document Type: Article

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