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Introduction The Online Kappa Calculator can be used to calculate kappa--a chance-adjusted measure of agreement--for any number of cases, categories, or raters. Two variations of kappa are provided: Siegel and Castellan's (1988) fixed-marginal multirater kappa and Randolph's free-marginal multirater kappa (see Randolph, 2005; Warrens, 2010). Brennan and Prediger (1981) suggest using free-marginal kappa when raters are not forced to assign a certain number of cases to each category and using fixed-marginal kappa when they are. Values of kappa can range from -1.0 to 1.0, with -1.0 indicating perfect disagreement below chance, 0.0 indicating agreement equal to chance, and 1.0 indicating perfect agreement above chance. A rule of thumb is that a kappa of .70 or above indicates adequate interrater agreement. Instructions First, specify the number of cases, categories, and raters then click on "Show table." A table will appear with cases in rows and categories in columns. Then, in the empty cells, input the number of raters who agreed that a certain case belongs to a certain category. Do not leave any empty cells; input a zero if no raters agreed that a case belonged to that category. The sum of each row should equal the number of raters. You can cut and paste data from most spreadsheet software, but you will have to accept the digital certificate to do so. |
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More Info See the following articles for more information on the formulas used here:
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