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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Laryngoscope. 2016 Apr 14;127(2):411–416. doi: 10.1002/lary.26034

TABLE I.

Mean Intrarater Spearman’s Rho Correlation Coefficients and Standard Deviations for Each of the Six Regions Rated in the Vocal Tremor Scoring System at the Three Rating Time Points.

Intrarater Reliability
VTSS Region/Parameter Rated Pretraining SRCC Post-training SRCC Long-term Post-training SRCC
Palate 0.716 (0.31) 0.794 (0.08) 0.895 (0.10)
Base of tongue 0.737 (0.19) 0.713 (0.29) 0.871 (0.08)
Pharyngeal walls 0.684 (0.35) 0.881 (0.05) 0.918 (0.06)
Larynx (global) 0.768 (0.12) 0.897 (0.10) 0.870 (0.07)
Supraglottis 0.778 (0.12) 0.834 (0.16) 0.888 (0.11)
True vocal folds 0.548 (0.34) 0.923 (0.06) 0.952 (0.06)
Total score 0.790 (0.16) 0.929 (0.04) 0.954 (0.02)

SRCC = Spearman’s rho correlation coefficients; VTSS = Vocal Tremor Scoring System.