psy (version 1.1)

ckappa: Cohen's Kappa for 2 raters

Description

Computes Cohen's Kappa for agreement in the case of 2 raters. The diagnosis (the object of the rating) may have k possible values.

Usage

ckappa(r)

Arguments

r

n*2 matrix or dataframe, n subjects and 2 raters

Value

A list with :

$table

the 2*k table of raw data (first rater in rows, second rater in columns)

$kappa

Cohen's Kappa

Details

The function deals with the case where the two raters have not exactly the same scope of rating (some software associate an error with this situation). Missing value are omitted.

References

Cohen, J. (1960), A coefficient of agreement for nominal scales, Educational and Psychological measurements, 20, 37-46.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(expsy)
ckappa(expsy[,c(12,14)])          # Cohen's kappa for binary diagnosis

#to obtain a 95%confidence interval:
#library(boot)
#ckappa.boot <- function(data,x) {ckappa(data[x,])[[2]]}
#res <- boot(expsy[,c(12,14)],ckappa.boot,1000)
#quantile(res$t,c(0.025,0.975))    # two-sided bootstrapped confidence interval of kappa
#boot.ci(res,type="bca")           # adjusted bootstrap percentile (BCa) confidence interval (better)
#ckappa(expsy[,c(11,13)])          # Cohen's kappa for non binary diagnosis
# }