The Reliability of Generating Data

ISBN-13: 9780367630713 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 312 str.

Klaus Krippendorff

Opis

This book expands on the author’s seminal work in content analysis and develops methods for assessing the reliability of the kind of data that previously defied evaluations for this purpose.

Spis treści

How I became interested in reliability issues. 1. On the epistemology of reliable data. 2. Simplest kinds: The replicability of categorizing predefined units. 3. Some properties of the Alpha. 4. Alpha compared with primarily nominal agreement measures. 5. Metric differences between single-valued units.6. The quadrilogy for single-valued predefined units and big data. 7. Multi-valued coding of predefined units.8. Partitioning continua and coding relevant segments. 9. Preserving the coherency of identified segments in continua. 10. Distinctions drawn within continua. 11. Text mining and information retrieval. 12. Diagnostic devices and remedial actions. 13. Some special applications. 14. Statistical considerations. 15. Reliability standards. 16. Toward a general calculus of differences and agreements. Appendix. References