Table 2. Exact agreement and rank correlation for all raters and for raters according to specialty.
Value | All raters | Surgeons | Geriatricians | p value |
n = 41 | n = 32 | n = 9 | ||
Fleiss' kappa (κ) | 0.471 | 0.491 | 0.390 | 0.0452 |
Kendall's W | 0.847 | 0.850 | 0.847 | 0.909 |
Kendall's tau (τ) | 0.797 | 0.801 | 0.782 | 0.333 |
Fleiss' kappa: exact inter-rater agreement; Kendall's W: relative agreement among raters; Kendall's tau: relative agreement with a standard value