PsychMorbidOrig: Psychological morbidity dataset as used in Fleiss (1971)

In BavoDC/AGREL: Package for calculating agreement/reliability indices

Description

This is the original dataset as described in Fleiss (1971). 6 psychiatrists were asked to diagnose 30 patients and the possible diagnoses were depression, personality disorder (PD), schizophrenia, neurosis and other.

Usage

data("PsychMorbidOrig")

Format

A data frame with information on the 30 diagnosed patients. The variables are

depression

For each of the patients, the number of times that the patient was diagnosed with depression.

PD

For each of the patients, the number of times that the patient was diagnosed with a personality disorder.

schizophrenia

For each of the patients, the number of times that the patient was diagnosed with schizophrenia.

neurosis

For each of the patients, the number of times that the patient was diagnosed with neurosis.

other

Variable when none of the other categories was applicable.

Source

Fleiss, J. L. (1971). Measuring nominal scale agreement among many raters. Psychological Bulletin, Vol.76(5), pp.378-382

Examples

data(PsychMorbidOrig)
head(PsychMorbidOrig)

BavoDC/AGREL documentation built on May 6, 2019, 7:22 a.m.