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Published and working papers by Kilem L. Gwet, Ph.D. on chance-corrected agreement coefficients, intraclass correlation, and inter-rater reliability study design — freely available to researchers and reviewers.

2016

Testing the Difference of Correlated Agreement Coefficients for Statistical Significance

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2014

Quantification of Myocardial Blood Flow in Absolute Terms Using 82Rb PET Imaging: Results of the RUBY-10 Study

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2013

A Comparison of Cohen's Kappa and Gwet's AC1 When Calculating Inter-Rater Reliability Coefficients: A Study Conducted With Personality Disorder Samples

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2011

On Krippendorff's Alpha Coefficient

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2008

Computing Inter-Rater Reliability and Its Variance in the Presence of High Agreement

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2008

Variance Estimation of Nominal-Scale Inter-Rater Reliability With Random Selection of Raters

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2008

Intrarater Reliability

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2002

Kappa Statistic Is Not Satisfactory for Assessing the Extent of Agreement Between Raters

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2002

Computing Inter-Rater Reliability With the SAS System

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2002

Inter-Rater Reliability: Dependency on Trait Prevalence and Marginal Homogeneity

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Companion materials

Additional resources & datasets

Excel walkthrough

Appendix B, worked in Excel

A step-by-step Excel walkthrough of the paired t-test method from "Testing the Difference of Correlated Agreement Coefficients," matching Appendix B of that paper cell for cell.

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Cloud app

Test it interactively with AgreeTest

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Commentary

Commentary: Do Not Force Agreement

A short commentary by Guangchao Charles Feng and Xinshu Zhao in response to Klaus Krippendorff's criticism of their paper in 2016.

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Applied study

Assessing agreement on nominal judgement variables

A working paper by Gareth McCray on assessing inter-rater agreement for nominal judgment variables.

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