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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 23.
Published in final edited form as: Tutor Quant Methods Psychol. 2012;8(1):23–34. doi: 10.20982/tqmp.08.1.p023

Table 1.

Designs for assigning coders to subjects IRR studies.

All subjects rated by multiple coders Subset of subjects rated by multiple coders

Coder A Coder B Coder C Coder A Coder B Coder C
Design fully crossed Subject 1 X X X Subject 1 X X X
Subject 2 X X X Subject 2 X
Subject 3 X X X Subject 3 X X X
Subject 4 X X X Subject 4 X
Coder A Coder B Coder C Coder A Coder B Coder C

Design not fully crossed Subject 1 X X Subject 1 X X
Subject 2 X X Subject 2 X
Subject 3 X X Subject 3 X X
Subject 4 X X Subject 4 X

Note: “X” indicates that the ratings were provided by a given coder to the corresponding subject.