Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1151051 | Statistical Methodology | 2009 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
A frequent criticism formulated against the use of weighted kappa coefficients is that the weights are arbitrarily defined. We show that using linear weights for a K -ordinal scale is equivalent to deriving a kappa coefficient from K−1K−1 embedded 2×2 tables.
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Authors
S. Vanbelle, A. Albert,