A Statistical Method for Evaluating the Reproducibility of Age Determination
- 1 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
- Vol. 39 (8) , 1208-1210
- https://doi.org/10.1139/f82-158
Abstract
The coefficients of variation and the index of precision provide a statistical test of reproducibility of aging between readers. Because the coefficients of variation and the index of precision incorporate the averaged year-class of a fish species, they are free from the shortcoming of the percent agreement method. Because variance is a better estimator than absolute difference, the coefficient of variation is a stronger estimator than the index of average percent error in providing a test statistic.Key words: age determination, coefficients of variation, index of precision, average percent error, percent agreementThis publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- A Method for Comparing the Precision of a Set of Age DeterminationsCanadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 1981