Epidemiology of Brucellosis in Small Ruminants of Rural and Peri-Urban Areas of Multan, Pakistan

Table 3

Strength of agreement between different serodiagnostic tests of brucellosis using kappa statistics.

	RBPT-VRI	RBPT-IDEXX	RBPT-ID.vet	ELISA
RBPT-VRI	—	0.86	0.87	0.74
RBPT-IDEXX	0.86	—	0.87	0.74
RBPT-ID.vet	0.87	0.87	—	0.72
ELISA	0.74	0.74	0.72	—

Note. Kappa values ≤0 = no agreement; 0.01–0.20 = none to slight agreement; 0.21–0.40 = weak agreement; 0.41–0.60 = moderate agreement; 0.61–0.80 = substantial agreement; 0.81–1.00 = almost perfect agreement [40].