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The British Journal of Psychiatry 143: 487-489 (1983)
© 1983 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Coefficients of agreement

ME Dewey

Several coefficients have been suggested for the measurement of agreement between raters. Recently Maxwell (1977) has proposed, and Janes (1979) has extended, a new coefficient, which they have termed the random error coefficient (RE). This paper criticizes their proposal and suggests that Cohen's (1960) coefficient kappa (K) is still the measure of choice.