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. 2020 Nov 17;20:527. doi: 10.1186/s12887-020-02419-9

Table 4.

Kappa and McNemar measure of agreement between BMI and Fat percentage categorise for 7–13 year old rural boys

Age groups Measure of agreement Kappa McNemar test for significance
Kappa (κ) SoA
7 year old -0.26 Poor 0.00*
8 year old 0.57 Moderate 0.00*
9 year old 0.14 Slight 0.00*
10 year old 0.18 Slight 0.00*
11 year old 0.11 Slight 0.00*
12 year old 0.22 Fair 0.00*
13 year old 0.30 Fair 0.00*

SoA Strength of agreement, Kappa Strength of agreement: Poor = < 0.00; Slight = 0.00-0.20; Fair = 0.21–0.40; Moderate = 0.41–0.60; Substantial = 0.61–0.80; Almost perfect = 0.81-1.00

Significance = *p ≤ 0.05