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When the raters participating in a reliability study are a random sample from a larger population of raters, inferences about the intraclass correlation coefficient must be based on the three mean squares from the analysis of variance table summarizing the results: between subjects, between raters, and error. An approximate confidence interval for the parameter is presented as a function of these three mean squares.
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Dr. Fleiss is also with the Biometrics Research Unit of the New York State Psychiatric Institute. This work was supported in part by grant DE 04068 from the National Institute of Dental Research.
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Fleiss, J.L., Shrout, P.E. Approximate interval estimation for a certain intraclass correlation coefficient. Psychometrika 43, 259–262 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02293867
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02293867