Methodological issues on evaluating agreement between two detection methods by Cohen’s kappa analysis

We read with great interest the article by Hendershot et al. (Parasit Vectors 14:473, 2021). The authors compared a PCR method for detecting Plasmodium vivax’s mitochondrial (mt) cytochrome oxidase I (COX-I) gene with the current “gold standard” circumsporozoite (CSP) ELISA for detecting circumsporo...

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Autores principales: Li, Ming, Yu, Tianfei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9338630/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35906628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-022-05402-8
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description We read with great interest the article by Hendershot et al. (Parasit Vectors 14:473, 2021). The authors compared a PCR method for detecting Plasmodium vivax’s mitochondrial (mt) cytochrome oxidase I (COX-I) gene with the current “gold standard” circumsporozoite (CSP) ELISA for detecting circumsporozoite protein for identification of different life stages of Plasmodium vivax during development within Anopheles arabiensis. We found that Cohen’s kappa value for measuring the agreement between mt COX-I PCR and CSP ELISA was questionable. In addition, we recommend a more appropriate statistical method in this article. In short, any scientific conclusion requires support by the reasonable application of methodological and statistical methods.
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spelling pubmed-93386302022-07-31 Methodological issues on evaluating agreement between two detection methods by Cohen’s kappa analysis Li, Ming Yu, Tianfei Parasit Vectors Correspondence We read with great interest the article by Hendershot et al. (Parasit Vectors 14:473, 2021). The authors compared a PCR method for detecting Plasmodium vivax’s mitochondrial (mt) cytochrome oxidase I (COX-I) gene with the current “gold standard” circumsporozoite (CSP) ELISA for detecting circumsporozoite protein for identification of different life stages of Plasmodium vivax during development within Anopheles arabiensis. We found that Cohen’s kappa value for measuring the agreement between mt COX-I PCR and CSP ELISA was questionable. In addition, we recommend a more appropriate statistical method in this article. In short, any scientific conclusion requires support by the reasonable application of methodological and statistical methods. BioMed Central 2022-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9338630/ /pubmed/35906628 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-022-05402-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9338630/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35906628
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