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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Autism Res. 2018 Mar 10;11(5):788–797. doi: 10.1002/aur.1943

Table 5.

Agreement among methods of measuring onset

Correspondence across Informants (on prospective dimensional measures)

Parent Rating
Regression No Regression
Examiner Rating Regression 21 7
No Regression 1 3
κ (95% CI): 0.30 (−0.03 to 0.64) Positive agreement: 84% Negative agreement: 43%
Percent agreement: 75%

Correspondence across Rating Types (on parent prospective measures)

Dimensional Rating
Regression No Regression
Categorical Rating Regression 12 3
No Regression 10 7
κ (95% CI): 0.21 (−0.10 to 0.51) Positive agreement: 65% Negative agreement: 52%
Percent agreement: 59%

Correspondence across Timing (on parent categorical measures)

Retrospective Rating1
Regression No Regression
Prospective Rating Regression 7 8
No Regression 2 14
κ (95% CI): 0.35 (0.04 to 0.65) Positive agreement: 58% Negative agreement: 74%
Percent agreement: 68%
1

Retrospective rating missing for 1 participant

Note:

Positive agreement is the proportional agreement in positive (“Regression”) ratings, calculated as:
2Number of "Regression" ratings by both ratersNumber of "Regression" ratings by rater 1+Number of "Regression" ratings by rater 2
Negative agreement is the proportional agreement in negative (“No Regression”) ratings, calculated as:
2Number of "No Regression" ratings by both ratersNumber of "No Regression" ratings by rater 1+Number of "No Regression" ratings by rater 2