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Inter-rater Reliability

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Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology

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Concordance; Inter-observer reliability; Inter-rater agreement; Scorer reliability

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Inter-rater reliability is the extent to which two or more raters (or observers, coders, examiners) agree. It addresses the issue of consistency of the implementation of a rating system. Inter-rater reliability can be evaluated by using a number of different statistics. Some of the more common statistics include: percentage agreement, kappa, product–moment correlation, and intraclass correlation coefficient. High inter-rater reliability values refer to a high degree of agreement between two examiners. Low inter-rater reliability values refer to a low degree of agreement between two examiners. Examples of the use of inter-rater reliability in neuropsychology include (a) the evaluation of the consistency of clinician’s neuropsychological diagnoses, (b) the evaluation of scoring parameters on drawing tasks such as the Rey Complex Figure Test or Visual Reproduction subtest, and (c) the...

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  1. British Columbia Mental Health and Addiction Services University of British Columbia, PHSA Research and Networks, Suite 201, 601 West Broadway, V5Z 4C2, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Rael T. Lange

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  1. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Professor of Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry Virginia Commonwealth University – Medical Center Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, VCU, 980542, Richmond, Virginia, 23298-0542, USA

    Jeffrey S. Kreutzer

  2. Kessler Foundation Research Center, 1199 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, NJ, 07052, USA

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  3. Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Neurology and Neuroscience, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – New Jersey Medical School, New Jersey, USA

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Lange, R.T. (2011). Inter-rater Reliability. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79948-3_1203

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