Hello Ron�n, are you sure that Lins coefficient is an appropriate option with
ordinal data? Reading the help file it seems that it can be used only with
continuous measure.
Quoting Ron�n Conroy <[email protected]>:
> On 17 Noll 2006, at 06:10, Meredith Makeham wrote:
>
> > In addition, the third level of the code has a few cells with very
> > small values in them (<5), and three of the outcomes for code 1 at
> > level 3, and one for code 2 at level 3, have a negative value for
> > their individula kappa statistic. What does this mean, and should
> > I not be doing this test if the cell size is smaller than a certain
> > number?
>
> A negative kappa means that the raters disagreed more than you would
> expect by chance alone. They may have been married.
>
> I would recommend thinking about Lin's concordance coefficient, since
> your data are ordinal; check out -concord-.
>
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