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

Table 2.

Coverage Rates of 95% Confidence Intervals When Prevalence Rate Is 0.75, and the Number of Categories q=3.

Sample size (n)
κ a Agreement coefficient 10 20 30 40 50 80 100
0.50 Cohen’s kappa 0.899 0.921 0.927 0.939 0.941 0.943 0.947
Scott’s pi 0.907 0.925 0.930 0.940 0.943 0.943 0.947
Gwet’s AC1 0.958 0.946 0.943 0.947 0.949 0.949 0.951
Brennan–Prediger 0.849 0.935 0.925 0.944 0.951 0.945 0.950
Krippendorff’s alpha 0.920 0.928 0.931 0.940 0.942 0.943 0.947
0.65 Cohen’s kappa 0.857 0.930 0.935 0.939 0.940 0.946 0.944
Scott’s pi 0.863 0.935 0.938 0.942 0.941 0.947 0.945
Gwet’s AC1 0.916 0.962 0.951 0.952 0.950 0.950 0.950
Brennan–Prediger 0.775 0.933 0.936 0.950 0.954 0.948 0.946
Krippendorff’s alpha 0.876 0.938 0.938 0.941 0.940 0.944 0.943
0.85 Cohen’s kappa 0.605 0.859 0.930 0.951 0.956 0.949 0.949
Scott’s pi 0.607 0.861 0.933 0.952 0.957 0.950 0.950
Gwet’s AC1 0.647 0.875 0.942 0.959 0.962 0.956 0.957
Brennan–Prediger 0.500 0.744 0.856 0.915 0.936 0.951 0.955
Krippendorff’s alpha 0.631 0.863 0.936 0.953 0.957 0.950 0.949
a

κ = hypothesized agreement level, representing the nominal percent of subjects on which the raters agree for cause, as opposed to by chance.