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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2015 Jun 21;34(23):3116–3132. doi: 10.1002/sim.6546

Table (v).

Results for the Holmquist et al's [11] Carcinoma in situ of the uterine cervix Agreement Study based upon an ordinal classification scale with C=5 categories; I=118 patient slides; J=7 pathologists.

Parameter Symbol Estimate S.E. Z-value
Ordinal GLMM:
Thresholds: (α0 = –∞, α5 = +∞)
    Between categories 1 and 2 α 1 −1.364 0.364 −3.747
    Between categories 2 and 3 α 2 0.370 0.361 1.024
    Between categories 3 and 4 α 3 2.856 0.376 7.605
    Between categories 4 and 5 α 4 4.214 0.407 10.347
Subject Random Effect variance σu2 4.130 0.684
Rater Random Effect variance σv2 0.627 0.348
Rho ρ 0.717 0.049
GLMM-based Observed Agreement p 0 0.485
Agreement Measures:
Model-based Kappa κ m 0.266 0.032
Fleiss’ kappa κ F 0.354 0.012
Light and Conger's kappa κ LC 0.361
Mielke's et al kappa 0.127
Cohen's GLMM-based kappa κ GLMM 0.296