Departmental Papers (ASC)

Title

Computing Krippendorff's Alpha Reliability

Document Type

Working Paper

Date of this Version

June 2007

Comments

Postprint version. Published in June 2007.

Abstract

Krippendorff’s alpha (α) is a reliability coefficient developed to measure the agreement between observers, coders, judges, raters, or measuring instruments. It emerged in content analysis but is widely applicable wherever two or more methods of processing data are applied to the same set of objects, units of analysis, or items and the question is how much they agree.

Date Posted: 22 January 2008