Re: st: Kappci problem

[Steven Samuels <ssamuels@albany.edu>]

I don't have -kappci- installed, but from the help file, it doesn't  
appear to take character variables at input.
-Steve
On Jun 21, 2007, at 7:29 AM, Nigel Armfield wrote:


> Hi,
>
> I am trying to an analysis of agreement between two raters  
> (dichotomous
> variables) using kappci.
> Each set of data is 14 pairs of Y/N.
>
> I'm confused by the behaviour of kappci - sometimes it produces a  
> result
> that looks fine, sometimes it produces a result but the kappa value
> seems way too low. Other times it fails with an odd error message.
>
> Here's an example of the error:
>
> var1	var2	var3
> 1	y	y
> 2	y	y
> 3	n	y
> 4	y	y
> 5	y	y
> 6	y	y
> 7	y	y
> 8	y	y
> 9	y	y
> 10	n	y
> 11	y	y
> 12	y	y
> 13	y	y
> 14	y	y
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