Report inter-rater reliability per tool with weighted kappa by InfinityBowman · Pull Request #850 · InfinityBowman/corates

InfinityBowman · 2026-09-19T22:31:25Z

Closes #720

Summary

Replaces the AMSTAR-only inter-rater reliability on the project overview with a per-tool calculation that covers RoB 2, ROBINS-I and AMSTAR 2.

New shared module packages/shared/src/checklists/reliability/: a tool-agnostic stats core (percent agreement, linear weighted Cohen's kappa, Fleiss-Cohen-Everitt standard error and 95% CI, confusion matrix, per-item breakdown) plus one adapter per tool that turns two reviewer checklists into rating pairs.
Pools every (study, tool, outcome) cell with two completed reviewer checklists, per tool, never across tools. Reviewer checklists keep their status after consensus, so the numbers describe agreement before reconciliation and stay stable afterwards.
Judgements come from the existing scorers. A domain assessed under different aims or effects is not compared. The overall judgement is compared separately so a disagreement is never counted twice.
A pair is compared only when both reviewers gave a substantive answer. Pairs that are not applicable for exactly one reviewer are reported, not counted as disagreements, because the branching answer that caused them is compared on its own. Explicit NA and branch-skipped questions are treated the same.
Kappa is shown after 20 compared pairs and is undefined when every rating is the same category.
Overview renders one card per tool: judgement agreement, weighted kappa with CI and Landis-Koch band, overall judgement match, a per-domain or per-item breakdown, and a signaling question line. A "How this is calculated" dialog states every rule and number from the same stats object.
Retires packages/web/src/lib/inter-rater-reliability.ts, updates the glossary and the feature showcase bullet that said AMSTAR 2 only.

Answers to the open questions in #720

Unit of agreement. Domain judgement per outcome for RoB 2 and ROBINS-I, item answer per study for AMSTAR 2. The overall judgement is a separate line because it is derived from the domains.
Plain or weighted kappa. Linear weighted, because every scale is ordinal. The dialog spells out the weights for the tool's own scale so it can be quoted in a methods section.
Breakdown. Per domain for RoB 2 and ROBINS-I, per item for AMSTAR 2, as percent agreement with a hover count.
Signaling-question level. Percent agreement only, shown as a secondary line. The response options differ between questions, so there is no single scale for a kappa.
Exports. Not in this PR; stays with Exports for RevMan Web, robvis, Excel, JSON, and manuscript tables #721.

Notes

The reliability module and overview use "signaling" (one l). The rest of the codebase still uses "signalling" in ten files, which is a separate rename.
Deferred, as agreed: user-facing options for the 20-pair threshold, weighting scheme, and a per-reviewer-pair breakdown.

Test plan

Shared: 383 tests pass, 23 of them new (kappa checked against hand-computed 2x2 and 3x3 tables)
Web: overview tab tests pass, 3 new for the section and dialog
Typecheck, oxlint, Prettier clean
Visual check of the cards and dialog on a project with dual-reviewed studies

https://claude.ai/code/session_01TAEtViwHmBCJSDSVKkzTD6

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added inter-rater reliability reporting for RoB 2, ROBINS-I, and AMSTAR 2 appraisal tools.
- Project overviews now show per-tool agreement, weighted kappa, confidence intervals, item breakdowns, and signaling-question results.
- Added an explanation dialog describing calculation methods, exclusions, scales, and interpretation bands.
- Reliability results now distinguish study-level and outcome-level comparisons.
Documentation
- Updated glossary definitions and references for inter-rater reliability and Cohen’s kappa.

Replace the AMSTAR-only percent agreement and unweighted kappa with a shared reliability module that pools every dual-reviewed cell per tool. Domain judgements (RoB 2, ROBINS-I) and item answers (AMSTAR 2) get a linear weighted Cohen's kappa with a Fleiss-Cohen-Everitt confidence interval, percent agreement, a per-domain breakdown, and a signaling question agreement line. Only pairs where both reviewers gave a substantive answer are compared; one-sided not-applicable pairs and domains assessed under different aims are reported rather than counted. The overview shows one card per tool with a dialog that explains the calculation from the same stats object, so the explanation cannot drift from the numbers. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TAEtViwHmBCJSDSVKkzTD6

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The pull request adds shared inter-rater reliability calculations for RoB 2, ROBINS-I, and AMSTAR 2. It replaces the former AMSTAR 2-only web calculation with per-tool project results and updates the overview, tests, exports, documentation, and feature text.

Changes

Reliability reporting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reliability contracts and statistics `packages/shared/src/checklists/reliability/types.ts`, `packages/shared/src/checklists/reliability/stats.ts`, `packages/shared/src/checklists/reliability/__tests__/stats.test.ts`, `packages/shared/package.json`, `packages/shared/src/checklists/index.ts`	Adds shared reliability types, pair classification, linear weighted kappa, confidence intervals, interpretation bands, level summaries, tests, and public exports.
Tool adapters and project aggregation `packages/shared/src/checklists/reliability/{rob2.ts,robins-i.ts,amstar2.ts,index.ts}`, `packages/shared/src/checklists/reliability/__tests__/adapters.test.ts`	Adds checklist adapters for three tools and aggregates eligible reviewer pairs into per-tool project results.
Overview reliability cards and calculation details `packages/web/src/components/project/overview-tab/*`, `packages/web/src/lib/inter-rater-reliability.ts`, `packages/web/src/components/FeatureShowcase.tsx`	Updates the overview to consume per-tool results, render tool cards and calculation details, and removes the former web reliability utility.
Reliability terminology documentation `packages/docs/glossary.md`	Documents per-tool weighted kappa, percent agreement, confidence intervals, and the shared reliability module reference.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant OverviewTab
  participant calculateProjectReliability
  participant ChecklistData
  participant ToolAdapters
  participant ReliabilitySection
  OverviewTab->>calculateProjectReliability: pass studies and checklist lookup
  calculateProjectReliability->>ChecklistData: retrieve reviewer checklist data
  calculateProjectReliability->>ToolAdapters: extract pairs for each tool
  ToolAdapters-->>calculateProjectReliability: return tool pairs
  calculateProjectReliability-->>OverviewTab: return reliability results
  OverviewTab->>ReliabilitySection: render per-tool cards

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Projects containing unassigned reviewer checklists can display inaccurate reliability results. Require two identified, distinct reviewers before merging unless this behavior is explicitly accepted.

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Remove the unnecessary useMemo.

The applicable packages/web/src/**/*.{ts,tsx} guidance says to avoid useMemo and let the React Compiler handle memoization. Remove the useMemo import and wrapper, while keeping the existing getChecklistData error handling.
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In `@packages/web/src/components/project/overview-tab/OverviewTab.tsx` around
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