Thank you very much for your comment regarding the use of Cohens kappa statistics
for assessing the agreement. We agree with you that for ordinally scaled variables,
the modified Cohens Kappa with linear or quadratic weights can be used. However, the
choice of weights is arbitrary. Alternatively, an intraclass correlation coefficient
could also be used. There are also other measures of agreement, all of which have
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Publication history
Published online: May 20, 2023
Accepted:
April 23,
2023
Received:
April 23,
2023
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