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Cohen's Kappa

Cohen's kappa (κ) is a statistical measure of inter-rater reliability for categorical classifications, introduced by Jacob Cohen in 1960. Unlike simple percent agreement, kappa corrects for the level of agreement that would be expected purely by chance, making it the standard metric when two raters independently assign observations to the same set of mutually exclusive categories.

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Cohen's Kappa Coefficient of Inter-Rater Agreement
Taxonomic method record · hypothesis-test / statistics
  • Cohen, J. (1960). A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal Scales. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 20(1), 37–46. · DOI 10.1177/001316446002000104
  • Landis, J.R. & Koch, G.G. (1977). The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data. Biometrics, 33(1), 159–174. · DOI 10.2307/2529310
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