title: Calculating reliability measures for ordinal data.
abstract: Establishing the reliability of measures taken by judges is important in both clinical and research work. Calculating the statistic of choice, the kappa coefficient, unfortunately is not a particularly quick and simple procedure. Two much-needed practical tools have been developed to overcome these difficulties: a comprehensive and easily understood guide to the manual calculation of the most complex form of the kappa coefficient, weighted kappa for ordinal data, has been written; and a computer program to run under CP/M, PC-DOS and MS-DOS has been developed. With simple modification the program will also run on a Sinclair Spectrum home computer.
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers; D006801:Humans; D008838:Microcomputers; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012984:Software