Cohen’s Kappa: Rater Agreement

Inter-rater agreement in R with Cohen’s kappa (irr package) — how much two raters agree beyond chance.

When two raters classify the same items, how much do they really agree?

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When to use it. Use kappa to quantify agreement corrected for chance: 0 is chance-level, 1 is perfect; above ~0.6 is usually considered good agreement.

Try the Cohen’s kappa calculator.

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