Cicchetti Domenic, Bronen Richard, Spencer Susan, Haut Sheryl, Berg Anne, Oliver Patricia, Tyrer Peter
Department of Biometry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
J Nerv Ment Dis. 2006 Aug;194(8):557-64. doi: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000230392.83607.c5.
We focus upon several broad issues that are of concern to clinicians and clinical researchers in the areas of biobehavioral and biomedical research, including, but not limited to, the fields of psychiatry, psychology, neuropsychology, and neurology. These issues are the critical reassessment of S. S. Stevens' quadripartite conceptualization of scales of measurement; the application of criteria to determine the clinical significance of reliability estimates; the detection of subsets of reliable and unreliable raters, when the overall level is of little clinical import; and finally, the application of Kappa statistics when multiple raters evaluate a single case.
我们关注生物行为和生物医学研究领域中临床医生和临床研究人员所关心的几个广泛问题，包括但不限于精神病学、心理学、神经心理学和神经病学领域。这些问题包括对S.S.史蒂文斯测量量表四分法概念的批判性重新评估；应用标准来确定可靠性估计的临床意义；当总体水平对临床意义不大时，检测可靠和不可靠评分者的子集；最后，当多个评分者评估单个病例时应用卡帕统计量。
