# Combining the standard errors of Cohen's Kappa computed for multiple rater pairs

In a study on intra-rater agreement with 8 raters, I have computed Cohen's Kappa for each of the raters and I estimated the standard error of each of the kappa values using the Jackknife method.

To get an estimate of the overall intra-rater agreement, I took the mean of all kappa values. So far so good, but what is the correct way to combine the standard errors? I want to combine these standard errors, so I can compute a 95% CI for the mean kappa.

I first thought that I could combine the standard errors by using the formula for pooled variance (wikipedia:pooled variance, function in R), with the kappa values as the means, the squared standard errors as the variances and the number of observations as N. However, I am not sure whether this is entirely correct. Can I replace the mean in the formula by the estimated kappa? If this is incorrect, can someone explain it to me from a mathematical point of view and a statistical point of view? Furthermore, I got upper confidence limits > 1 and hence, a value that is impossible for kappa.