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Agreement Computation - Have you considered using Krippendorff's Alpha?

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Description

Have you considered using Krippendorff's Alpha to calculate agreement? This not only takes account of chance agreement but also missing data, and it also works for any number of coders. It's the standard measure of inter-coder reliability in the field of content analysis.

Refs:
- Hayes, A.F., Krippendorff, K., 2007. Answering the Call for a Standard Reliability Measure for Coding Data. Communication Methods and Measures 1, 77–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312450709336664
- Krippendorff, K., 2011. Computing Krippendorff’s Alpha-Reliability 10.

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named in the issue. First locate the existing agreement computation and review the cited Krippendorff references, then confirm with maintainers whether support for missing data and any number of coders is in scope; done would require an agreed implementation and validation criteria.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
analytics
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
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Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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