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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2010 Jun;24(2):292–299. doi: 10.1037/a0018126

Table 5.

Agreement between informants’ reports of twin with concurrent self-report of co-twin.

Gambling Behavior Ever Monthly Weekly Problem (1+) Pathological (5+)
Kappa 0.28 (.19 – .37) 0.30 (.26 – .35) 0.22 (.14 – .31) 0.16 (.10 – .22) 0.26 (.12 – .40)
Yule’s Y 0.67 (.57 – .76) 0.34 (.30 – .39) 0.24 (.15 – .32) 0.59 (.47 – .71) 0.65 (.50 – .77)
Sensitivity 0.95 (.94 – .96) 0.50 (.47 – .53) 0.74 (.69 – .79) 0.11 (.07 – .16) 0.28 (.13 – .44)
Specificity 0.59 (.44 – .74) 0.81 (.78 – .84) 0.48 (.41 – .54) 0.99 (.99 – 1.00) 0.98 (.98 – .99)
PPV 0.99 (.99 – .99) 0.74 (.71 – .78) 0.68 (.63 – .73) 0.66 (.50 – .82) 0.27 (.13 – .42)
NPV 0.21 (.14 – .28) 0.59 (.56 – .62) 0.56 (.49 – .63) 0.89 (.87 – .90) 0.99 (.98 – .99)

Note: PPV = positive predictive value, NPV = negative predictive value