The extra k (MS_C - MS_E)/n term in the denominator is the whole
difference from the consistency form: it charges for between-rater
bias. Two raters who agree on the ordering but differ by a constant
score high on consistency and low here.
References
McGraw & Wong (1996) Psychol Methods 1:30-46, table 4; Shrout & Fleiss (1979) Psychol Bull 86:420-428.
Examples
IccA(y = c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), subject = c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8),
rater = c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8))
#> $estimate
#> [1] 3.227273
#>
#> $ms_r
#> [1] 48
#>
#> $ms_c
#> [1] 48
#>
#> $ms_e
#> [1] -12.85714
#>
#> $k
#> [1] 8
#>
#> $n_subjects
#> [1] 8
#>
#> $method
#> [1] "Intraclass correlation ICC(A,1)"
#>
#> attr(,"class")
#> [1] "morie_rich_result" "list"
