Table (iv).

Results for the Gleason Grading Agreement Study [46] based upon an ordinal classification scale with C=4 categories; I=46 patient biopsies; J=10 urologists.

Parameter	Symbol	Estimate	S.E.	Z-value
Ordinal GLMM:
Thresholds: (α0 = –∞, α4 = +∞)
Between categories 1 and 2	α 1	−5.226	0.641	−8.154
Between categories 2 and 3	α 2	−1.258	0.522	−2.411
Between categories 3 and 4	α 3	1.549	0.521	2.971
Subject Random Effect variance	${\sigma }_u^2$	9.295	2.453
Rater Random Effect variance	${\sigma }_v^2$	0.358	0.200
Rho	ρ	0.873	0.027
GLMM-based Observed Agreement	p 0	0.669
Agreement Measures:
Model-based Kappa	κ m	0.484	0.035
Fleiss’ kappa	κ F	0.569	0.014
Light and Conger's kappa	κ LC	0.570
Mielke's et al kappa		0.196
Cohen's GLMM-based kappa	κ GLMM	0.526