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Assessing Inter-Rater Reliability for Rating Scales: Resolving some Basic Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2018

Domenic V. Cicchetti
Domenic V. Cicchetti*
Affiliation:
V. A. Hospital, West Haven, Connecticut 06516; Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University
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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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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 129 , Issue 5 , November 1976 , pp. 452 - 456
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1976 

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