Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: We thank Drs Delgado and Fernandez-Jimenez for their comment. We agree that the suggested test is more appropriate for demonstrating agreement and the difference between correlation and agreement should be made known. However, it should be strongly noted that if a correlation is high (i.e. there is a strong linear relationship) and a graphical display of the data show that the data fall along the line of equality, as we showed in Fig. 2 (Giles et al, 2003), then the correlation coefficient and measures mentioned by Drs Delgado and Fernandez-Jimenez will be very similar. Given the obvious relationship between rater scores (evinced by the combined evidence of the correlation and the figure) other statistics, which are not more informative, are at best interesting exercises but do not help the typical medical reader understand the methods used.
Source: British Journal of Haematology
Institution: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2017247593