Assessing interrater agreement on binary measurements via intraclass odds ratio.

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serval:BIB_64C8711553C8
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Publications
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Title
Assessing interrater agreement on binary measurements via intraclass odds ratio.
Journal
Biometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift
Author(s)
Locatelli I., Rousson V.
ISSN
1521-4036 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0323-3847
Publication state
Published
Issued date
07/2016
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
58
Number
4
Pages
962-973
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Interrater agreement on binary measurements is usually assessed via Scott's π or Cohen's κ, which are known to be difficult to interpret. One reason for this difficulty is that these coefficients can be defined as a correlation between two exchangeable measurements made on the same subject, that is as an "intraclass correlation", a concept originally defined for continuous measurements. To measure an association between two binary variables, it is however more common to calculate an odds ratio rather than a correlation. For assessing interrater agreement on binary measurements, we suggest thus to calculate the odds ratio between two exchangeable measurements made on the same subject, yielding the concept of "intraclass odds ratio". Since it is interpretable as a ratio of probabilities of (strict) concordance and discordance (between two raters rating two subjects), an intraclass odds ratio might be easier to understand for researchers and clinicians than an intraclass correlation. It might thus be a valuable descriptive measure (summary index) to evaluate the agreement among a set of raters, without having to refer to arbitrary benchmark values. To facilitate its use, an explicit formula to calculate a confidence interval for the intraclass odds ratio is also provided.

Keywords
Biometry/methods, Data Interpretation, Statistical, Humans, Observer Variation, Odds Ratio, Reproducibility of Results, Binary measurements, Concordances and discordances, Interrater agreement, Intraclass correlation, Intraclass odds ratio
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