Guide to conducting Weighted Kappa in SPSS 22?

[Bradley Coverdale]

Hi all,

I started looking online for guides on conducting weighted kappa and found some old syntax that would read data from a table along with a weighted kappa utility I installed. Is there an easier method to input the 500 records into the weighted kappa module? Our office is running v. 22. Thanks for your help!

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[Jon Peck]

You might want to use the STATS WEIGHTED KAPPA extension command.  You can install it from Utilities > Extension Bundles > Download and Install ...

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Bradley Coverdale <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi all,

I started looking online for guides on conducting weighted kappa and found some old syntax that would read data from a table along with a weighted kappa utility I installed. Is there an easier method to input the 500 records into the weighted kappa module? Our office is running v. 22. Thanks for your help!

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Brad Coverdale, Ed. D.

Learning Outcomes Research Associate

Howard Community College

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[Bruce Weaver]

Brad, you could use the method shown here:

  https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21477357

I just tried it for the example shown at http://vassarstats.net/kappaexp.html, and got these results:

Run MATRIX procedure:
WK1
   .4736842105
WK2
   .4545454545
------ END MATRIX ----

The Vassar Stats webpage gives the results as:

.4737 (using linear weights) -- this matches WK1 from the SPSS matrix program
.4545 (using quadratic weights) -- this matches WK2 from the SPSS matrix program

You could add TITLE sub-commands to the two PRINT commands in that matrix program, as follows:

PRINT wk1 /TITLE "Weighted Kappa (with linear weights)".
PRINT wk2 /TITLE "Weighted Kappa (with quadratic weights)".

HTH.

Bradley Coverdale wrote

Hi all,

I started looking online for guides on conducting weighted kappa and found
some old syntax that would read data from a table along with a weighted
kappa utility I installed. Is there an easier method to input the 500
records into the weighted kappa module? Our office is running v. 22. Thanks
for your help!

--
Brad Coverdale, Ed. D.

Learning Outcomes Research Associate
Howard Community College

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