Research Article

Measurement of Interobserver Disagreement: Correction of Cohen’s Kappa for Negative Values

Table 1

A 2 × 2 contingency table with marginal probabilities r and and with the entries in each cell as follows: first entry corresponds to , second entry corresponds to , and third entry is the weighted mean of the other two entries where .

Observer 1 Observer 2Total
Category 1Category 2

Category 10

Category 20

Total1.00