diagnoses                package:irr                R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Psychiatric diagnoses of n=30 patients provided by different sets
     of m=6 raters. Data were used by Fleiss (1971) to illustrate the
     computation of Kappa for m raters.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(diagnoses)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A data frame with 30 observations (psychiatric diagnoses with
     levels 1. Depression, 2. Personality Disorder, 3. Schizophrenia,
     4. Neurosis, 5. Other) on 6 variables representing different
     raters.

     _r_a_t_e_r_1 a factor including the diagnoses of rater 1 (levels see
          above)

     _r_a_t_e_r_2 a factor including the diagnoses of rater 2 (levels see
          above)

     _r_a_t_e_r_3 a factor including the diagnoses of rater 3 (levels see
          above)

     _r_a_t_e_r_4 a factor including the diagnoses of rater 4 (levels see
          above)

     _r_a_t_e_r_5 a factor including the diagnoses of rater 5 (levels see
          above)

     _r_a_t_e_r_6 a factor including the diagnoses of rater 6 (levels see
          above)

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Fleiss, J.L. (1971). Measuring nominal scale agreement among many
     raters. Psychological Bulletin, 76, 378-382.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Fleiss, J.L. (1971). Measuring nominal scale agreement among many
     raters. Psychological Bulletin, 76, 378-382.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     data(diagnoses)
     table(diagnoses[,1])

