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- Title
Estimating With a Latent Class Model the Reliability of Nominal Judgments Upon Which Two Raters Agree.
- Authors
Schuster, Christof; Smith, David A.
- Abstract
Because nominal-scale judgments cannot directly be aggregated into meaningful composites, the addition of a second rater is usually motivated by a desire to estimate the quality of a single rater's classifications rather than to improve reliability. When raters agree, the aggregation problem does not arise. Nevertheless, a proportion of this agreement is likely to have occurred by chance, so reliability issues remain even if the focus is on nominal judgments upon which raters concur. In this article, the reliability of nominal judgments upon which raters agree is addressed in the framework of a latent class model that includes a systematic agreement parameter. It is shown that if attention is limited to agreement cases, the value of this parameter increases as expected. Circumstances under which agreement case reliability is important are discussed.
- Subjects
STATISTICS; DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory); STATISTICAL reliability; NOMINAL measurement; LEVEL of measurement; MULTIVARIATE analysis; LATENT variables; MATHEMATICAL variables; LATENT structure analysis
- Publication
Educational & Psychological Measurement, 2006, Vol 66, Issue 5, p739
- ISSN
0013-1644
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0013164405285905