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USMLE purpose: Rapid-review a single biostats shortcut in Anki-card style.

How to use this page

  1. Identify whether the statistic is about agreement, rank, or linear correlation.
  2. Match to kappa, tau, or Pearson r.
  3. Open the toggle to confirm.
Episode metadata
FieldDetails
EpisodeRandy Neil Biostats 35
TopicBiostats short
Runtime1 min
Published2024-02-04
SourceOpen YouTube video

One-liner

Agreement = kappa, ranked association = Kendall tau, linear correlation = Pearson r.

Two raters agree beyond chance?

Cohen’s kappa.

Linear relationship between continuous variables?

Pearson correlation coefficient.

Extra practice

Two physicians rank the same 20 cases from least severe to most severe. Which statistic best assesses association between the two rankings?

Reveal answer & explanation

Kendall’s tau. It is used for ranked/ordinal association.