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Agreement between an isolated rater and a group of raters

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  • S. Vanbelle
  • A. Albert

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The agreement between two raters judging items on a categorical scale is traditionally assessed by Cohen's kappa coefficient. We introduce a new coefficient for quantifying the degree of agreement between an isolated rater and a group of raters on a nominal or ordinal scale. The group of raters is regarded as a whole, a reference or gold‐standard group with its own heterogeneity. The coefficient, defined on a population‐based model, requires a specific definition of the concept of perfect agreement. It has the same properties as Cohen's kappa coefficient and reduces to the latter when there is only one rater in the group. The new approach overcomes the problem of consensus within the group of raters and generalizes Schouten's index. The method is illustrated on published syphilis data and on data collected from a study assessing the ability of medical students in diagnostic reasoning when compared with expert knowledge.

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  • S. Vanbelle & A. Albert, 2009. "Agreement between an isolated rater and a group of raters," Statistica Neerlandica, Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research, vol. 63(1), pages 82-100, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:stanee:v:63:y:2009:i:1:p:82-100
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9574.2008.00412.x
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    1. H. J. A. Schouten, 1982. "Measuring pairwise interobserver agreement when all subjects are judged by the same observers," Statistica Neerlandica, Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research, vol. 36(2), pages 45-61, June.
    2. Helena Kraemer, 1979. "Ramifications of a population model forκ as a coefficient of reliability," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 44(4), pages 461-472, December.
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    1. Matthijs Warrens, 2011. "Cohen’s Linearly Weighted Kappa is a Weighted Average of 2×2 Kappas," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 76(3), pages 471-486, July.

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