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. 2020 Jul 30;183(3):759–770. doi: 10.1007/s10549-020-05816-x

Table 1.

Agreement, Gwet’s AC2 (GAC2), and Krippendorff’s alpha (KA) coefficients per histopathological feature

Histopathological feature Agreement (%) 95% CI (%) GAC2 95% CI KA 95% CI
Grade (1, 2 or 3) 76.4 75.27–77.52 0.52 0.50–0.55 0.34 0.30–0.39
Grade (1 versus 2 + 3) 83.5 81.33–85.68 0.78 0.74–0.82 0.35 0.28–0.42
Grade (1 + 2 versus 3) 69.3 66.94–71.63 0.43 0.38–0.49 0.34 0.29–0.38
Grade (low versus high) 72.8 70.54–75.12 0.52 0.47–0.57 0.38 0.32–0.44
Dominant growth pattern 84.8 82.58–86.97 0.78 0.75–0.82 0.44 0.37–0.51
Calcifications 81.1 78.81–83.40 0.70 0.65–0.75 0.49 0.43–0.54
Necrosis 81.4 79.12–83.64 0.70 0.66–0.75 0.47 0.41–0.53
Mitotic activity 78.5 76.12–80.97 0.70 0.65–0.74 0.24 0.19–0.29
Periductal fibrosis (absent, subtle or prominent presence) 70.9 69.71–72.13 0.37 0.34–0.39 0.25 0.22–0.29
Periductal fibrosis (present versus absent) 71.2 68.82–73.48 0.53 0.48–0.58 0.23 0.18–0.28
Type of periductal fibrosis (if present) 70.5 67.57–73.37 0.50 0.44–0.57 0.26 0.21–0.31
Lymphocytic infiltrate (absent, subtle or prominent presence) 77.1 75.82–78.36 0.50 0.47–0.53 0.42 0.38–0.47
Lymphocytic infiltrate (present versus absent) 73.0 70.51–75.40 0.51 0.45–0.56 0.38 0.33–0.43

GAC2 Gwet’s AC2, KA Krippendorff’s alpha, weighted analysis was performed for ordinal features with more than 2 categories using linear weights (grade 1–3, periductal fibrosis, and lymphocytic infiltrate), CI confidence interval