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Fleiss, J. L. (1971) is best known for introducing Fleiss' kappa. In Table 1 he presents diagnosis data of psychiatric patients. The data is on Fleiss form, with n = 30 patients diagnosed by 6 psychiatrists each. It is not the case that the same set of six psychiatrists diagnosed every patient.

Usage

dat.fleiss1971

Format

The tibble contains the five columns "depression", "personality disorder", "schizophrenia" "neurosis", and "other". The content of the ijth cell is the number of raters who diagnosed the ith patient as having mental illness j.

Source

The data was scraped by hand from Fleiss (1971).

References

Fleiss, J. L. (1971). Measuring nominal scale agreement among many raters. Psychological Bulletin, 76(5), 378<U+2013>382. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0031619