Research Article

Weighted Kappas for Tables

Table 3

Eight weighting schemes for tables.

NameSourceScale typeSymbolScheme

General symmetric[8]

011
Identity[11]Nominal 101
110

012
Linear[29, 30]Continuous-ordinal 101
210

014
Quadratic[8]Continuous-ordinal 101
410

023
[9, 31]Dichotomous-ordinal 201
310

011
Reliability category 1Dichotomous 100
100

010
Reliability category 2Dichotomous 101
010

001
Reliability category 3Dichotomous 001
110