The agreement in Germany's industrial heartland by the union, which represents 2.2 million workers in the German auto, metal and electronics industries, is expected to serve as a benchmark for agreements in other states.
For Kappa, popular benchmarks for high agreement are.80, and minimum acceptable agreement are.61 (Altman 1990; Landis and Koch 1977).
"The survival of small Island states must be the benchmark for the 2015 agreement".
It will act as a benchmark for all its agreements with all the steel companies that it supplies, which are largely based in China and Japan.
While research exists on various funds' history, there is no accepted benchmark for comparison and no agreement on what constitutes success, wealth preservation or high returns.
Percentage agreement and Cohen's kappa were calculated and interpreted in accordance with Landis and Koch's benchmarks for assessing the agreement between raters: poor (0), slight (0.0 to 0.20), fair (0.21 to 0.40), moderate (0.41 to 0.60), substantial (0.61 to 0.80), and almost perfect (0.81 to 1.0) [ 54].
Percentage agreement and Cohen's kappa were calculated with GRAPHPAD software (Version 2002-2005; GRAPHPAD San DiegoInCa SandDiego, Ca), and were interpreted in accordance with Landis and Koch's benchmarks for assessing the agreement between raters: poor (<0), slight (0.0 to 0.20), fair (0.21 to 0.40), moderate (0.41 to 0.60), substantial (0.61 to 0.80), and almost perfect (0.81 to 1.0) [ 20].
Percentage agreement and Cohen's Kappa statistic [ 19] were calculated with GRAPHPAD Software (Version 2002) and were interpreted in accordance with Landis and Koch's benchmarks for assessing the agreement between raters [ 20]: poor (<0), slight (.0 .20), fair (.21 .40), moderate (.41 .60), substantial (.61 .80), and almost perfect (.81 1.0).81 1.0
In accordance with Landis and Koch's benchmarks for assessing the agreement between raters a kappa-score of 0.81 - 1.0 was considered almost perfect, 0.61 - 0.8 was substantial, 0.41 - 0.6 was moderate, 0.21 - 0.4 was fair, 0.0 - 0.2 slight and scores <0 poor [ 42].
If successful, the United States could use this agreement as a benchmark for trade deals with other rich nations.
