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

Table 4.

Coverage Rates of 95% Confidence Intervals When Prevalence Rate is 0.75, and the Number of Categories q=5.

Sample size (n)
κ a Agreement coefficient 10 20 30 40 50 80 100
0.50 Cohen’s kappa 0.923 0.935 0.932 0.936 0.940 0.945 0.948
Scott’s pi 0.931 0.940 0.933 0.937 0.940 0.945 0.948
Gwet’s AC1 0.976 0.962 0.943 0.946 0.947 0.949 0.952
Brennan–Prediger 0.786 0.931 0.932 0.948 0.952 0.947 0.949
Krippendorff’s alpha 0.928 0.937 0.932 0.935 0.938 0.944 0.945
0.65 Cohen’s kappa 0.897 0.948 0.944 0.939 0.937 0.942 0.948
Scott’s pi 0.903 0.951 0.946 0.940 0.937 0.942 0.948
Gwet’s AC1 0.946 0.979 0.961 0.953 0.950 0.951 0.953
Brennan–Prediger 0.678 0.887 0.930 0.946 0.948 0.952 0.952
Krippendorff’s alpha 0.907 0.951 0.943 0.939 0.935 0.941 0.946
0.85 Cohen’s kappa 0.649 0.901 0.962 0.972 0.973 0.954 0.948
Scott’s pi 0.653 0.903 0.962 0.973 0.974 0.954 0.949
Gwet’s AC1 0.685 0.914 0.971 0.982 0.980 0.958 0.953
Brennan–Prediger 0.388 0.624 0.766 0.848 0.900 0.937 0.946
Krippendorff’s alpha 0.673 0.904 0.965 0.975 0.972 0.953 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.