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. 2015 Jul 28;76(4):609–637. doi: 10.1177/0013164415596420

Table 1.

Coverage Rates of 95% Confidence Intervals When Prevalence Rate is 0.75 and the Number of Categories q=2.

Sample size (n)
κ a Agreement coefficient 10 20 30 40 50 80 100
0.50 Cohen’s kappa 0.864 0.925 0.934 0.943 0.937 0.945 0.943
Scott’s pi 0.855 0.933 0.936 0.945 0.938 0.946 0.943
Gwet’s AC1 0.926 0.946 0.945 0.950 0.948 0.951 0.949
Brennan–Prediger 0.859 0.936 0.928 0.945 0.946 0.948 0.945
Krippendorff’s alpha 0.872 0.932 0.935 0.944 0.938 0.946 0.942
0.65 Cohen’s kappa 0.796 0.924 0.934 0.941 0.942 0.949 0.942
Scott’s pi 0.793 0.933 0.935 0.942 0.943 0.949 0.943
Gwet’s AC1 0.852 0.947 0.948 0.950 0.951 0.954 0.949
Brennan–Prediger 0.809 0.940 0.932 0.948 0.955 0.951 0.943
Krippendorff’s alpha 0.808 0.933 0.934 0.942 0.942 0.949 0.942
0.85 Cohen’s kappa 0.521 0.772 0.886 0.924 0.937 0.945 0.946
Scott’s pi 0.523 0.774 0.887 0.924 0.937 0.946 0.946
Gwet’s AC1 0.555 0.781 0.895 0.932 0.946 0.952 0.952
Brennan–Prediger 0.547 0.780 0.887 0.924 0.941 0.952 0.952
Krippendorff’s alpha 0.542 0.775 0.886 0.924 0.937 0.946 0.947
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κ = hypothesized agreement level, representing the nominal percent of subjects on which the raters agree for cause, as opposed to by chance.