Combinatorial matching paradigms are used to derive kappa-type statistics for measuring agreement with ranked data. Significance tests for these statistics are presented, based on the Poisson distribution and Cantelli's inequality.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
BartonD. E.The matching distributions: Poisson limiting forms and derived methods of approximation. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (B), 1958, 20, 73–92.
NeaveH. R.Statistics tables. London: Allen & Unwin, 1978.
7.
StewartR. A.PowellG. E.RankinH. J.TuttonS. J.Concordance coefficient (W), correction for the inequality of interval in the underlyingrhos. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1975, 40, 159–162.
8.
StilsonD. W.CampbellV. N.A note on calculating tau and average tau and on the sampling distribution of average tau with a criterion ranking. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1962, 57, 567–571.
