You might want to check section 10.5 in Agresti, Categorical Data
Analysis, 1990, Wiley.
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Mats Carlsson wrote:
> Sorry if this has come up before, but
> here it goes.
>
> Is there a way I can compare
> kappa-values? The backgound is as
> follows:
> Four physicians has coded a 100 surgical
> notes.
> Each physician has coded each surgical
> note using all four different
> classifications. (thus coning the same
> note in four different ways).
> The classifications has differing
> numbers of catagories (one has 8, one
> 10, one 16 and so on).
>
> I've calculated the degree of agreement
> within each classification using
> generalized kappa. How can I compare
> these values? I'm not an experienced
> statistichian, so I'm kind of lost here.
> I've looked at Fleiss and Haas, but they
> don't seem to help in this issue.
>
> /Mats Carlsson
>
>
>
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