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A Kraemer-type Rescaling that Transforms the Odds Ratio into the Weighted Kappa Coefficient

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This paper presents a simple rescaling of the odds ratio that transforms the association measure into the weighted kappa statistic for a 2×2 table.

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Warrens, M.J. A Kraemer-type Rescaling that Transforms the Odds Ratio into the Weighted Kappa Coefficient. Psychometrika 75, 328–330 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-010-9155-7

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