("It was raised many times with him," a senior Romney official told me, "and he was very categorical about not wanting to and not thinking it was worth it").
After a pregnant pause, he adds, "I'm very categorical about that final answer.
"I also note that the government and the Prime Minister has been very categorical in denouncing those practices as well as what has taken place," Ruteere told a news briefing in Geneva.
A second and even more important objection is that it is very difficult to believe that categorical propositions about material objects (e.g., "There is a fire in the next room") can be analyzed without remainder into sets of hypotheticals or "if..
Inter-reviewer agreement before consensus for categorical variables was very good [17]: The median kappa value was 0.89 [0.83–0.95] for funding source, 0.99 [0.96–1.00] for geographical origin, 0.83 [0.68–0.99] for unit of randomization and 0.95 [0.91–0.99] for primary outcome category; and good for intervention assessed (median kappa 0.74 [0.74–0.74]).
Overall agreement for categorical variables was very good (Kappa statistic = 0.80, CI 95% 0.76, 0.84) as was overall agreement for continuous variables (ICC = 0.96, CI: 95% 0.92, 0.99) [ 90].
Lingering doubts that a sterilizing cure really has been achieved– in its absolute, categorical sense – may be very hard to shake.
General combined categorical agreement on treatment response was very good (κ=0.94 1), but was diminished with volume thresholds <35% (κ<0.95%, p>0.05).
And so it may be that his very categorical answers are the nub of his opinion, but not the full expression.
"That is obviously a very categorical difference between the two," she said.
