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. 2007 Sep 12;8:90. doi: 10.1186/1471-2474-8-90

Table 2.

Results of Inter- and intra-observer reliability

Results inter-observer reliability
Waiters Pelvic One leg One leg Sitting Rocking Rocking Prone knee Prone knee Crook
test bow tilt stance R. stance L. Knee ext. Fx. Ext. Bend Ext. bend Rot. lying

pair 1
Kappa Coefficient (CI 95%) 0.71 (0.50–0.92) 0.60 (0.36–0.84) 0.56 (0.27–0.85) 0.70 (0.57–0.93) 0.80 (0.61–0.99) 0.68 (0.45–0.91) 0.66 (0.39–0.93) 0.75 (0.52–0.98) 0.62 (0.37–0.87) 0.44 (0.18–0.70)
% Agreement 85.7 80.0 88.0 88.0 90.4 88.0 92.8 97.6 90.5 78.6
Std Error 0.11 0.12 0.14 0.19 0.09 0.18 0.14 0.11 0.13 0.13
P-value < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 0.003
pair 2
Kappa (CI 95%) 0.52 (0.29–0.75) 0.70 (0.48–0.92) 0.29 (0.00–0.84) 0.80 (0.54–1.00) 0.64 (0.40–0.88) 0.45 (0.16–0.74) 0.69 (0.37–1.00) 0.19 (0.00–0.42) 0.54 (0.28–0.80) 0.32 (0.10–0.54)
% Agreement 75.0 92.5 97.5 92.5 95.0 90.0 92.5 87.5 87.5 65.0
Std Error 0.12 0.11 0.26 0.13 0.12 0.15 0.17 0.12 0.14 0.11
P-value < 0.001 < 0.001 0.053 < 0.001 < 0.001 0.004 < 0.001 0.11 0.001 0.012

Kappa Ø 0.62 0.65 0.43 0.65 0.72 0.57 0.68 0.47 0.58 0.38

Results intra-observer reliability

Observer 1
kappa 0.75 (0.55–0.95) 0.80 (0.61–0.99) 0.64 (0.40–0.88) 0.67 (0.44–0–90) 1.0 0.73 (0.44–1.00) 0.22 (0.00–0.64) 0.59 (0.29–0.81) 0.60 (0.31–0.91) 0.84 (0.66–1.00)
% Agreement 97.5 95.0 92.5 87.5 100 97.5 95.0 92.5 92.5 97.5
Std Error 0.10 0.01 0.12 0.12 0.0 0.15 0.24 0.15 0.15 0.09
P-value < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 0.16 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001
Observer 2
Kappa (CI 95%) 1.0 0.8 (0.61–0.99) 0.69 (0.29–0.99) 1.0 0.9 (0.77–1.00) 0.70 (0.48–0.92) 0.8 (0.56–1.00) 0.8 (0.62–0.98) 0.95 (0.94–0.96) 0.88 (0.71–1.00)
% Agreement 100 95 100 100 100 97.5 100 92.5 100 97.5
Std Error 0.0 0.09 0.23 0.0 0.07 0.11 0.12 0.94 0.05 0.09
P-value 0.000 < 0.001 < 0.001 0.000 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001

Kappa Ø 0.88 0.80 0.67 0.84 0.95 0.72 0.51 0.70 0.78 0.86