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J Epidemiol Community Health 58:718-722 doi:10.1136/jech.2002.006650
  • Theory and methods

Inter-rater agreement in defining chemical incidents at the National Poisons Information Service, London

Table 3

 Level of agreement between all raters using κ statistics (overall and by subgroup)

Group κ Statistic p Value
Overall 0.6956 0.00
Health Effect Yes 0.6178 0.00
No 0.7321 0.00
Number exposed Less than or equal to one 0.4821 0.00
Greater than or equals to two 0.5780 0.00
Type of incident Other 0.3756 0.00
Fire 0.8322 0.00
Spill 0.2567 0.0004
Type of site Missing 0.6348 0.00
Residential 0.7254 0.00
Industrial 0.5651 0.00
Not known 0.6109 0.00
Where released to Not known 0.7098 0.00
Air 0.3319 0.00
Water body 0.6331 0.00
Property 0.8005 0.00

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