Solved – When do I use two-way mixed, two way random and one way random for the Intraclass correlation coefficient

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I have a question about the intraclass correlation coefficient. I have 62 patients for whom I calculated the breast tumor volume. The surgeon who resected the tumors did the same thing, but without seeing my calculations. Now I want to know something about the inter-observer agreement for this group by using the ICC. Can someone help me: should I use the two-way mixed, two-way random or one-way random method?

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Your question has been downvoted with no explanation as to why, which is not very helpful in my opinion, as you don't get any hints on how to improve your question to get an appropriate answer.

Anyway, the question as to which ICC to use depends on 3 things (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4913118/):

  1. The "Model” (e.g., 1-way random effects, 2-way random effects, or 2-way mixed effects);

  2. The "Type” (e.g., for decision-making, will you use the average of the measurements produced by the surgeon and yourself or just the measurement produced by the surgeon);

  3. The “Definition” of relationship considered to be important (i.e., consistency in measurements between the surgeon and yourself OR absolute agreement between the surgeon and yourself in terms of measurements).

Please read the article and see if you can figure out what the answer is - then you can come back with a more pointed question here.

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