Asymptotic Confidence Intervals for the Difference and the Ratio of theWeighted Kappa Coefficients of Two Diagnostic Tests Subject to a Paired Design
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Binary diagnostic test Paired design Weighted kappa coefficient
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2022Referencia bibliográfica
Roldán-Nofuentes, J.A., Sidaty-Regad S.B. (2022). Asymptotic confidence intervals for the difference and the ratio of the weighted kappa coefficients of two diagnostic tests subject to a paired design. REVSTAT - Statistical Journal, 20, 309-336
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This research was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Grant Number MTM2016-76938-P.Resumen
The weighted kappa coefficient of a binary diagnostic test is a measure of the beyond-chance agreement between the diagnostic test and the gold standard, and depends on the sensitivity and specificity of the diagnostic test, on the disease prevalence and on the relative importance between the false negatives and the false positives. This article studies the comparison of the weighted kappa coefficients of two binary diagnostic tests subject to a paired design through confidence intervals. Three asymptotic confidence intervals are studied for the difference between the parameters and five other intervals for the ratio. Simulation experiments were carried out to study the coverage probabilities and the average lengths of the intervals, giving some general rules for application. A method is also proposed to calculate the sample size necessary to compare the two weighted kappa coefficients through a confidence interval. A program in R has been written to solve the problem studied and it is available as supplementary material. The results were applied to a real example of the diagnosis of malaria.