A Kraemer-type Rescaling that Transforms the Odds Ratio into the Weighted Kappa Coefficient

Psychometrika

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 328-330

  Warrens, Matthijs J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

2 2 association measure; Cohen's kappa

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953726321     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-010-9155-7     Document Type: Article

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