Ivan Balducci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I would like to understand the meaning of  negative Cohens Kappa value
> (1960).  I got  it from the following data (from Dental Radiology):
> Magnetic resonance versus Facial Pain
>       Yes      No
> Yes     1       4
> No     11      30
> Kappa =  - 0,0422
Since Kappa is a correlation coefficient, it can go from -1 (perfect
disagreement) to +1 (perfect agreement).

The 95% confidence intervals for Kappa for this table go from 
approxmately -0.3 to +0.2. 




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