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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 2.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2011 Feb;135(2):233–242. doi: 10.1043/1543-2165-135.2.233

Table 1.

Results of Group Agreement Analysis Using Kendall Coefficient of Concordance (Kw)a

Observer Group Interobserver Agreement From Continuous Data, Kw
(95% CI)
 Interobserver Agreement From Categoric Data, Kw
(95% CI)
Unaided Computer-Aided Unaided Computer-Aided
 Overall 0.82 (0.78–0.85) 0.92 (0.90–0.93) 0.76 (0.72–0.80) 0.86 (0.84–0.88)
 Pathologists 0.82 (0.79–0.85) 0.91 (0.90–0.93) 0.77 (0.74–0.80) 0.86 (0.84–0.89)
 Novices 0.84 (0.81–0.87) 0.94 (0.92–0.95) 0.79 (0.75–0.82) 0.88 (0.86–0.91)

Abbreviation: CI, confidence interval.

a

Numbers in parentheses indicate the 95% CI constructed from 100 bootstrap samples. All differences in agreement between unaided and computer-aided are statistically significant.