Interrater agreement coefficients

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

hiedarali  hooman ¹ (دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تهران مرکز)

Received: 2015-06-07 Accepted : 2015-06-07 Published : 2006-12-22

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Abstract :

    The degree of agreement between two or more judges who rate a number of objects on certain characteri-stics can be expressed by means of an coef-ficient(e.g,product moment correlation,PMC).the agrement among judges can rarely be perfect.if two judges produce twoidentical sets of scores the PMS will attain its maximum value,which equals+1.however, a PMCthat equals +1 dose not mean that the two sets of data are exactly equal.different judges actually make judgments only based on the relative states of individuals,objects,or phenomena,and not based on thire absolute states.this article aims to introduce association coefficients that are indicative of the degree to which there is an absolute agreement and real similarity among the ratings by different judges.some propertise