Assessing agreement between multiple raters with missing rating information, applied to breast cancer tumour grading.

We consider the problem of assessing inter-rater agreement when there are missing data and a large number of raters. Previous studies have shown only 'moderate' agreement between pathologists in grading breast cancer tumour specimens. We analyse a large but incomplete data-set consisting o...

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Main Authors: Thomas R Fanshawe, Andrew G Lynch, Ian O Ellis, Andrew R Green, Rudolf Hanka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-08-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2488396?pdf=render