title: Developing criteria for establishing interrater reliability of specific items: applications to assessment of adaptive behavior.
abstract: A set of criteria based upon biostatistical considerations for determining the interrater reliability of specific adaptive behavior items in a given setting was presented. The advantages and limitations of extant statistical assessment procedures were discussed. Also, a set of guidelines for differentiating type of adaptive behavior that are statistically reliable from those that are reliable in a clinical or practical sense was delineated. Data sets were presented throughout in order to illustrate the advantages of recommended statistical procedures over other available ones.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011594:Psychometrics