Assessing Inter-Rater Reliability for Rating Scales: Resolving some Basic Issues
D. Cicchetti
Nov 1, 1976
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British Journal of Psychiatry
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Key Takeaway Key Takeaway: This paper presents minimal sample sizes and linear agreement weights for assessing the reliability of rating scales in neuropsychiatric and other clinico-medicai settings.
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Summary This paper extends the recent work of Hall (1974) by presenting the minimal sample sizes and the specific linear agreement weights required for assessing the reliability of rating scales commonly used in neuropsychiatric and other clinico-medicai settings. The weights are shown to vary as a function of (a) whether or not the rating scale contains a point of ‘absence’, and (b) the number of ordinal points on the scale.
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