A CAUTIONARY NOTE ON THE USE OF PROBABILITY VALUES TO EVALUATE INTEROBSERVER AGREEMENT

Proposed methods of assessing the statistical significance of interobserver agreements provide erroneous probability values when conducted on serially correlated data. Investigators who wish to evaluate interobserver agreements by means of statistical significance can do so by limiting the analysis...

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Published in:Journal of applied behavior analysis 1982, Vol.15 (1), p.189-190
Main Authors: Hartmann, Donald P., Gardner, William
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Brief Reports
interobserver agreement
observational reliability
serial dependence
statistics
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Summary:Proposed methods of assessing the statistical significance of interobserver agreements provide erroneous probability values when conducted on serially correlated data. Investigators who wish to evaluate interobserver agreements by means of statistical significance can do so by limiting the analysis to every kth interval of data, or by using Markovian techniques which accommodate serial correlations.
ISSN:0021-8855
1938-3703
DOI:10.1901/jaba.1982.15-189