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Re: st: Kappa and test of significance
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Kappa and test of significance
Date
Thu, 3 May 2012 09:34:17 +0100
The title of your post although not the text alludes to -kappa- but
that seems quite wrong here. The technology of -concord- (-findit- for
locations) seems a bit better fit but much of it was developed with
measured data, not counted data, in mind.
Poisson modelling would seem a more natural starting point. A minimal
descriptive approach includes plots of A vs B, ln A vs ln B, (ln A -
ln B) vs (ln A + ln B)/2. The last two require all counts to be
positive.
Nick
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Aminu Shittu <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a data showing number of parasite counts from composite animal fecal samples from 23 farms. Two individuals (A & B) analysed each sample independently and reported different egg counts presented in the data set as vars acomp, bcomp, and totalcomp = acomp + bcomp. I was wondering whether I could test for agreement and associations between the 2 observers. I will appreciate any help on commands to be used, being a non-proficient Stata user. I use Stata IC v. 10.
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