Weighted kappa: Nominal scale agreement provision for scaled disagreement or partial credit.
Psychological BulletinPublished 1 January 1968
Jacob Cohen
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The Kw provides for the incorpation of ratio-scaled degrees of disagreement (or agreement) to each of the cells of the k * k table of joi.
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A previously described coefficient of agreement for nominal scales, kappa, treats all disagreements equally. A generalization to weighted kappa (Kw) is presented. The Kw provides for the incorpation of ratio-scaled degrees of disagreement (or agreement) to each of the cells of the k * k table of joi
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