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ancfletcher
Calcite | Level 5

Good morning SAS community,

 

I have what I believe to be a relatively simple question regarding intraobserver and interobserver reliability using a weighted Cohen’s kappa analysis. 

 

I have two reviewers (R1multiall, R3multiall) that graded radiographs 1-3.  

 

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In trying to determine the inter-rater reliability, I used the code:

 

proc freq data = scaphoid.scaphoid ;
tables R1multiall * R3multiall / agree ;
test kappa ;
run;

 

However, I am surprised by the results (weighted kappa 0.1935) and feel that I am not calculating this correctly. I apologize, I am new to SAS and would really appreciate some help! This is just a small part of my dataset, I actually have 5 reviewers who all reviewed the radiographs twice.  So I would like to access both inter- and intra-rater reliability.

 

Thank you for any guidance!

 

2 REPLIES 2
PGStats
Opal | Level 21

Why are you surprised by the results?

PG
ancfletcher
Calcite | Level 5

The kappa correlation coeff for the example above (12 scores in agreeance) was 0.19. versus this new dataset below (17 scores in agreance) with a kappa coronation coeff of 0.02.  I know the weighted kappa accounts for the ordinal nature of the data which could be having more of an influence than I expected. Do you think using ICC would be better in this scenario given the rank of the scores? 

 

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