Modelling agreement for binary intensive longitudinal data

Abstract

Devices that measure our physical, medical and mental condition have entered our daily life recently. Such devices measure our status in a continuous manner and can be useful in predicting future medical events or can guide us towards a healthier life. It is therefore important to establish that such devices record our behaviour in a reliable manner and measure what we believe they measure. In this article, we propose to measure the reliability and validity of a newly developed measuring device in time using a longitudinal model for sequential kappa statistics. We propose a Bayesian estimation procedure. The method is illustrated by a validation study of a new accelerometer in cardiopulmonary rehabilitation patients.