Glossary

Weighted Kappa

Statistical Glossary

Weighted Kappa:

Weighted kappa is a measure of agreement for Categorical data . It is a generalization of the Kappa statistic to situations in which the categories are not equal in some respect – that is, weighted by an objective or subjective fuction.

See also Kappa Statistic , Cohen´s kappa .

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