The Fleiss’ kappa statistic is a well-known index for assessing the reliability of agreement between raters. It is used both in the psychological and in the psychiatric field. Unfortunately, the kappa statistic may behave inconsistently in case of strong agreement between raters, since this index assumes lower values than it would have been expected. The aim of this paper is to propose a new method to avoid this paradox through permutation techniques. Furthermore, we study the problem of kappa confidence intervals and, in particular, we suggest to use Bootstrap confidence intervals free of paradoxes.

Falotico, R., Quatto, P. (2015). Fleiss’ Kappa statistic without paradoxes. QUALITY & QUANTITY, 49(2), 463-470 [10.1007/s11135-014-0003-1].

Fleiss’ Kappa statistic without paradoxes

FALOTICO, ROSA
;
QUATTO, PIERO
2015

Abstract

The Fleiss’ kappa statistic is a well-known index for assessing the reliability of agreement between raters. It is used both in the psychological and in the psychiatric field. Unfortunately, the kappa statistic may behave inconsistently in case of strong agreement between raters, since this index assumes lower values than it would have been expected. The aim of this paper is to propose a new method to avoid this paradox through permutation techniques. Furthermore, we study the problem of kappa confidence intervals and, in particular, we suggest to use Bootstrap confidence intervals free of paradoxes.
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Inter-rater agreement; Fleiss’ kappa; Kappa paradoxes; Monte Carlo simulations; Bootstrap confidence intervals
English
2015
49
2
463
470
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Falotico, R., Quatto, P. (2015). Fleiss’ Kappa statistic without paradoxes. QUALITY & QUANTITY, 49(2), 463-470 [10.1007/s11135-014-0003-1].
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