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```{r, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>")
```

```{r setup}
library(intraclass)
```

A point estimate on its own can mislead. With a handful of subjects the same
ICC could be "poor" or "excellent" and you would not know it. So every `icc()`
coefficient comes with an interval, never a bare number, and the `ci_method`
argument selects how that interval is built. This article covers the default
[**Monte-Carlo** interval](glossary.html#monte-carlo-interval), built by
drawing parameter values from the fitted model's uncertainty. It also covers the [parametric
bootstrap](glossary.html#parametric-bootstrap), which refits the model on
simulated data many times. It then covers the [four opt-in
methods](#the-opt-in-boundary-robust-methods) for the
near-[boundary](glossary.html#zero-variance-boundary) terrain the default
struggles on, where an estimate can land exactly at zero. The first is the
[transformed bootstrap-*t*](glossary.html#transformed-bootstrap-t)
(`"npbootstrap"`), which resamples whole subjects and studentizes. The second
is the [exact-F](glossary.html#exact-f-interval) closed form (`"searle"`), a
closed-form interval that assumes normal data. The third is the
[Burch](glossary.html#burch-interval) closed form (`"burch"`), a closed-form
interval with a kurtosis adjustment. The fourth is the [modified profile
likelihood](glossary.html#modified-profile-likelihood) (`"mpl"`), which
profiles the likelihood in the ICC with a small-sample correction. It is the
two-way counterpart, for the design where each rater is tracked across the
subjects they score. It serves only that design's balanced, complete, random case with
absolute [agreement](glossary.html#absolute-agreement), where raters give the
same score. Last is the Bayesian [**credible**
interval](glossary.html#credible-interval), which holds the share of
the posterior probability that the confidence level sets. That interval comes with the brms
[engine](glossary.html#engine), the software that does the fitting. Terms are
defined in the [*Glossary*](glossary.html).

## Monte-Carlo and the parametric bootstrap

The Monte-Carlo interval is the default. Use it unless it aborts near the zero
boundary. There, an opt-in method below serves on the design it is fenced
to, and the abort message names one where it can. The parametric bootstrap is
for when you distrust the normal approximation the default rests on and can
afford a full refit per resample. The rest of this section says what each
does and where the two diverge.

Every interval elsewhere in these articles has been the default Monte-Carlo
interval. It draws from the fitted parameter covariance on the engine's log
scale and back-transforms. That is fast and
[boundary-aware](glossary.html#zero-variance-boundary). A second method, the
parametric bootstrap (`ci_method = "bootstrap"`), instead simulates response
vectors from the fitted model, refits, and takes percentile quantiles of the
resampled coefficients. It does not lean on the asymptotic-normal covariance
approximation, which frays in small samples. That approximation is the
assumption that the estimates are normally distributed around the truth. The
bootstrap costs a full refit per resample, so it is far slower.

```{r ci-bootstrap, eval = requireNamespace("glmmTMB", quietly = TRUE)}
mc <- tidy(icc(ratings, score, subject, rater, seed = 1))
bs <- tidy(icc(ratings, score, subject, rater,
  ci_method = "bootstrap", boot_samples = 999, seed = 1
))
```

```{r ci-bootstrap-table, echo = FALSE, eval = requireNamespace("glmmTMB", quietly = TRUE) && requireNamespace("gt", quietly = TRUE)}
data.frame(
  term = mc$term, estimate = mc$estimate,
  mc_low = mc$conf.low, mc_high = mc$conf.high,
  bs_low = bs$conf.low, bs_high = bs$conf.high
) |>
  gt::gt() |>
  gt::tab_header(title = "Monte-Carlo and bootstrap 95% intervals on the ratings data") |>
  gt::fmt_number(columns = estimate, decimals = 3) |>
  gt::fmt_number(columns = mc_low:bs_high, decimals = 2) |>
  gt::cols_merge(columns = c(mc_low, mc_high), pattern = "[{1}, {2}]") |>
  gt::cols_merge(columns = c(bs_low, bs_high), pattern = "[{1}, {2}]") |>
  gt::cols_label(
    term = "Coefficient",
    estimate = "Estimate",
    mc_low = "Monte-Carlo",
    bs_low = "Parametric bootstrap"
  )
```

The point estimates are identical (same fit). The bootstrap's lower bounds run
markedly lower. This is a very small design (six subjects), and the
bootstrap's lower tail is noisier than the covariance-based Monte-Carlo draw.
Its upper bounds sit close to the Monte-Carlo ones, close enough that
ICC(A,k)'s two upper bounds round alike above. But they are not identical, and
they do not all fall on the same side. The two methods can diverge more where
the asymptotics are strained. One such place is near the [zero-variance
boundary](glossary.html#zero-variance-boundary). Another is the multilevel
designs, which carry more [variance
components](glossary.html#variance-component), each a share of the total
variation traced to one source, and often few clusters. In the multilevel
case the subject level is reliability within a cluster, and the cluster level
is reliability of cluster means. There the bootstrap's
[cluster-level](glossary.html#subject-level-vs--cluster-level) interval in
particular carries more resampling noise. The bootstrap is available for
every design the `"glmmTMB"` and `"lme4"` engines fit. The `"lavaan"` engine
bootstraps complete data, and a multilevel lavaan fit needs balanced clusters
and random raters besides. Anywhere off those fences lavaan is Monte-Carlo
only. Resamples cannot reproduce a missingness pattern. The two-level factory reads the raw rater component and is
random-only. And the two-level bootstrap was validated on balanced clusters.
Raise `boot_samples` (default `999`) for a smoother interval at
proportionally more cost.

### When the default under-covers

The boundary is not the default's only weak spot, and the other one is easier
to miss because nothing about the output looks wrong. The Monte-Carlo draw
assumes the fitted parameters are approximately normally distributed around
the truth. That assumption is about the *estimates*, not the ratings. But it
degrades when the **subject effects** are strongly skewed or heavy-tailed.
Then a nominal 95% interval covers considerably less often than 95% of the
time.

A one-way simulation study measured this across four subject-effect
distributions. Where the default produced an interval at all, coverage fell
to 0.6725 at its worst. That worst cell had chi-square(1) subject effects, a
true ICC of 0.6, 50 subjects and 5 raters. Those runs did not abort, warn, or
widen, so the shortfall is invisible in the interval itself.

Two patterns in that study are worth carrying away, and one tempting reading
of it is wrong. At 5 raters per subject, coverage falls as the subject count
rises, once the true ICC is moderate or high. The largest designs are the
exposed ones, not the smallest. And near-normal or uniform subject effects
under-covered only in cells where many runs aborted. Wherever the default
almost always returned an interval, those distributions were fine. The wrong
reading is that fewer raters is safer. In every cell where both were
measured, 2 raters covered worse than 5. What changes is that a larger share
of the 2-rater runs abort outright. An abort is a visible failure rather than
a quiet one.

The held-out battery agrees where the geometry matches. Lognormal and Laplace
subject effects covered 0.825 and 0.84 at that same 50-subject, 5-rater
geometry. Their 20-subject, 3-rater cells came out near nominal.

The natural reaction, switching to a closed form, does not help. In every
cell where the default under-covered without also aborting often, `"searle"`
and `"burch"` under-covered as well, usually by more. `"burch"`, the one this
article used to recommend for heavy tails, bottoms out at 0.6655. The
remaining methods were never run on that study, so this article recommends
none of them in its place.

What to do instead is ordinary statistical hygiene rather than a package
setting. Look at the distribution of the subject means before trusting a
narrow interval. Report the variance components alongside the coefficient.
And treat an interval on visibly skewed data as optimistic about its own
precision.

## The opt-in boundary-robust methods

Near the [zero-variance boundary](glossary.html#zero-variance-boundary) the
Monte-Carlo default can fail to produce an interval. When it aborts, its
message names an alternative method where one serves your data. It chooses
that method by running the candidates on your own data rather than by
consulting a table. So in practice you rarely need to pick one from scratch.
This section is for when you do. Four opt-in methods serve exactly that
terrain. Each is fenced to a specific design and aborts with a classed error
anywhere else.

### The transformed bootstrap-*t* (`ci_method = "npbootstrap"`)

This is one method for a one-way random design when the Monte-Carlo default
aborts near the boundary. It also serves when you doubt that the subject effects are
normal. It is the one opt-in method that handles unbalanced one-way data. The cost is
resampling time, and a seed to pin.

The non-parametric [**transformed
bootstrap-*t***](glossary.html#transformed-bootstrap-t) of Ukoumunne et al.
(2003) serves the **one-way random design** (`model = "oneway"`), on balanced
and unbalanced data alike. Of the four opt-in methods it is the only one that
serves unbalanced one-way data. It resamples whole subjects with replacement
rather than simulating from the fitted model. So it is the only opt-in method
that takes a `seed` (and `boot_samples`). Pin both for a reproducible
interval. Any `conf_level` in `(0, 1)` is accepted. `unit = "average"`, the
ICC(k), is the exact monotone Spearman-Brown image of the ICC(1) endpoints.
So its coverage is inherited by construction, balanced or not. A numeric
`unit` is a [D-study](glossary.html#d-study-decision-study) projection, which
projects the fitted variance components to other rater or
[occasion](glossary.html#occasion-within-cell-replicate) counts.
Here it projects to the mean of `m` raters. That projection is restricted to balanced data. Reach for this method for boundary
robustness, an interval that exists where the Monte-Carlo default aborts.
Reach for it too for robustness to non-normal subject effects. Its endpoints
are deliberately left untruncated on the estimator's own support (Ukoumunne
et al. 2003, §5.2). So a near-boundary lower limit can be negative. That is
honest disclosure, not an error.

### The classical closed forms (`ci_method = "searle"` and `"burch"`)

These two are for a balanced one-way random design when the Monte-Carlo
default aborts near a zero ICC. Prefer `"searle"`. It is exact under normality, and
in the skew study it landed closer to nominal coverage in most cells.
`"burch"` adjusts for the tails of your data, but that adjustment is not a
remedy for heavy tails. On strongly skewed subject effects `"burch"`
under-covers about as badly as the default.

Two deterministic classical intervals serve the **balanced one-way random
design**. They are closed forms with no resampling, so `mc_samples`,
`boot_samples`, and `seed` do not apply and no `std.error` is reported. Any
`conf_level` in `(0, 1)` is accepted. Both project ICC(k) through the same
Spearman-Brown image as `"npbootstrap"`, and a numeric `unit` with it. The
[**exact-F interval**](glossary.html#exact-f-interval) (`"searle"`; Searle
1971, the McGraw & Wong 1996 Table 7 limits) is exact under normality. It is
best-calibrated when the data are approximately normal. The [**Burch
interval**](glossary.html#burch-interval) (`"burch"`; Burch 2011) is
[REML](glossary.html#reml)-based and kurtosis-adjusted. REML, restricted
maximum likelihood, is a way to estimate variances that corrects maximum
likelihood's downward bias. `"burch"`'s width tracks the data's tail weight,
which buys it some robustness to mild non-normality. It is not, however, a
remedy for heavy tails. On strongly skewed subject effects it under-covers
about as badly as the default (see [When the default
under-covers](#when-the-default-under-covers)).

**Which is the tighter interval?** Neither, reliably, and the margin between
them is not constant. The larger grid's 64 cells span four distribution
families. There `"burch"` is the *narrower* of the two in 59 of 64 cells
of the larger grid. How much narrower depends on where in the design you
look. Below, the median width ratio is `"burch"`'s width over `"searle"`'s.
A value under 1 means `"burch"` is narrower, and 1 means they are the same
width.

| true ICC | median width ratio | `"burch"` narrower |
|---:|---:|---:|
| 0.05 | 0.9485 | 16 of 16 |
| 0.1 | 0.9470 | 16 of 16 |
| 0.3 | 0.9475 | 16 of 16 |
| 0.6 | 0.9971 | 11 of 16 |

| subjects (at 5 raters) | median width ratio | `"burch"` narrower |
|---:|---:|---:|
| 10 | 0.9154 | 15 of 16 |
| 30 | 0.9646 | 15 of 16 |
| 50 | 0.9769 | 13 of 16 |

Two things to read off. The first is the pattern along the true ICC.
`"burch"`'s width advantage holds much
the same up to a true ICC of 0.3 rather than shrinking as the true ICC rises
(on the larger grid; the smaller grid's margin does shrink across its levels).
On the larger grid, measured by level medians the largest margin is at a true
ICC of 0.1, not at the bottom of the range. Cell by cell, though, `"burch"`'s
width margin is the larger one at the bottom level in 11 of 16 paired cells.
The advantage then
collapses to near parity at a true ICC of 0.6, on the one grid reaching that
value. Every cell favouring `"searle"` sits at that level on that grid.
The second pattern is along the subject count: there `"burch"`'s width margin
shrinks steadily as the subject count grows, measured at 5 raters. That is
the cut the second table takes. That cut is at 5 raters because 10 subjects
is the only subject count in either grid where the rater count varies. An
unstratified row there would be confounded with the rater count. The smaller
grid's 16 cells carry only the two lowest true-ICC values. So that sweep
cannot show the first pattern, but it shows the second in the same direction.
`"burch"` runs narrower there by a median width ratio of 0.9017 at 10
subjects, 0.9611 at 30 subjects and 0.9775 at 50 subjects.

A pooled figure over both grids that vary only the subject effect would hide
all of this, and it would invite a second misreading. The smaller grid's
design points are a subset of the larger one's. So much of the gap between
their pooled medians is which true-ICC values each grid covers, rather than a
disagreement between two bodies of evidence. But only much of it. Restricting
the larger grid to the smaller one's design points closes most of that gap
and leaves a remainder. The two are separate simulations that mostly disagree
at the design points they share, agreeing closely at only a couple of them. A
pooled between-grid comparison is not a clean contrast in either direction.
So nothing above is one.

Both of the grids above draw the **subject effects** alone from the
non-normal family. They always draw the errors from a normal, and that is
not an incidental detail. Burch's own expected-length comparison is against
this very exact-F interval, and it is kurtosis-conditional. He finds his
interval shorter for light-tailed data but *wider* for symmetric heavy-tailed
data. He measures with the subject effects and the errors alike drawn from
the studied family. A third grid now measures that residual case here. What
`"burch"` does against `"searle"` depends on what the residual is drawn from.
Read together, the three grids measure that:
the two grids that vary only the subject effect put it narrower
nearly everywhere, while the third, which draws the residual from
the same family as the subject effect, puts it wider at every
symmetric heavy-tailed family measured (a median width ratio of
1.2963 at t(5) with 100 subjects) and narrower at every lighter-tailed one,
the normal included. So the honest summary is that the ordering depends on
the data, on what the residual is drawn from most of all. You should not pick
between them on width.

Prefer `"searle"`: across every distribution family in that skew study it
landed closer to nominal coverage in most cells, heavy-tailed ones included.
What `"burch"` buys is dipping below the nominal level in fewer cells
overall. That is a more limited kind of steadiness than its kurtosis
adjustment suggests. Their value over the default is a finite,
well-calibrated interval at the near-zero-ICC boundary where the Monte-Carlo
default aborts. One asymmetry between the siblings: on data with *no*
between-subject variance at all, `"burch"` aborts while `"searle"` still
returns an interval. The Burch abort happens because its kurtosis
standardization divides by zero there. Read that `"searle"` interval
carefully. The single-rater coefficient, the reliability of one rater's
score, gets the attained minimum. The averaged projection carries that
minimum through the Spearman-Brown pole to negative infinity, which a default
call prints beside it.

```{r ci-oneway-optin, eval = requireNamespace("glmmTMB", quietly = TRUE)}
mc <- tidy(icc(ratings, score, subject, rater, model = "oneway", seed = 1))
se <- tidy(icc(ratings, score, subject, rater,
  model = "oneway", ci_method = "searle"
))
bu <- tidy(icc(ratings, score, subject, rater,
  model = "oneway", ci_method = "burch"
))
np <- tidy(icc(ratings, score, subject, rater,
  model = "oneway", ci_method = "npbootstrap", boot_samples = 199, seed = 1
))
```

```{r ci-oneway-optin-table, echo = FALSE, eval = requireNamespace("glmmTMB", quietly = TRUE) && requireNamespace("gt", quietly = TRUE)}
data.frame(
  term = mc$term, estimate = mc$estimate,
  mc_low = mc$conf.low, mc_high = mc$conf.high,
  se_low = se$conf.low, se_high = se$conf.high,
  bu_low = bu$conf.low, bu_high = bu$conf.high,
  np_low = np$conf.low, np_high = np$conf.high
) |>
  gt::gt() |>
  gt::tab_header(title = "One-way 95% intervals on the ratings data by method") |>
  gt::fmt_number(columns = estimate, decimals = 3) |>
  gt::fmt_number(columns = mc_low:np_high, decimals = 2) |>
  gt::cols_merge(columns = c(mc_low, mc_high), pattern = "[{1}, {2}]") |>
  gt::cols_merge(columns = c(se_low, se_high), pattern = "[{1}, {2}]") |>
  gt::cols_merge(columns = c(bu_low, bu_high), pattern = "[{1}, {2}]") |>
  gt::cols_merge(columns = c(np_low, np_high), pattern = "[{1}, {2}]") |>
  gt::cols_label(
    term = "Coefficient",
    estimate = "Estimate",
    mc_low = "Monte-Carlo",
    se_low = "Searle",
    bu_low = "Burch",
    np_low = "Nonparametric bootstrap"
  )
```

All four columns share the same point estimate: `ci_method` selects the
interval, never the estimator. The visible difference is at the lower end.
The three opt-in methods' lower limits dip below zero, because their
endpoints are left untruncated on the estimator's own support. The
Monte-Carlo interval stays inside the range. And the Burch adjustment is
empirical, not a one-way widening. Here it comes out *narrower* than the
exact-F interval, because its width tracks the tail weight these particular
data actually show. That is the same direction the grids above measure.

### The modified profile likelihood (`ci_method = "mpl"`)

This is the method for a balanced, complete two-way random design with
absolute agreement, where raters give the same score. Reach for it when the
Monte-Carlo default aborts near a zero ICC. It is conservative by design: it
gives a wider interval than the default at ordinary interior cells. Expect a
cautious interval when you use it.

The [**modified profile-likelihood
interval**](glossary.html#modified-profile-likelihood) of Xiao & Liu (2013)
is the two-way counterpart. It serves the **balanced, complete two-way random
absolute-agreement** ICC(A,1), where raters give the same score. ICC(A,k) and
any numeric-`unit` projection are its pole-safe Spearman-Brown image. It
aborts on any other design. That includes
[consistency](glossary.html#consistency), where raters agree apart from a
constant offset per rater. It includes
[fixed](glossary.html#fixed-vs--random-raters) raters, where the observed
raters are the whole population of interest. And it includes unbalanced or
incomplete data. It is a deterministic closed form: no resampling, no `seed`.
Its calibration fixes two fences. `conf_level` must be 0.90, 0.95, or 0.99,
since each level carries its own calibrated correction constant, never
interpolated between levels. The calibration grid spans 2–10 raters and
10–100 subjects. Like `"npbootstrap"`, it returns an interval at the
near-zero-ICC boundary where the two-way Monte-Carlo default aborts. It is
deliberately conservative: it over-covers and is wider than the Monte-Carlo
interval at interior cells. So it is an opt-in and not the default. Two
reporting caveats come from `?icc`. The two-sided interval is not
equal-tailed, so a limit must not be read as a one-sided bound at half the
complementary level. Separately, at `conf_level = 0.99` with two raters the
interval can be near-vacuous.

The shipped `ratings` data are too small for the calibration grid (six
subjects). So the demonstration uses the shipped `ratings_twoway` data
instead. They are a simulated balanced two-way design with 20 subjects and
4 raters (see `?ratings_twoway`):

```{r ci-mpl, eval = requireNamespace("glmmTMB", quietly = TRUE)}
mc2 <- tidy(icc(ratings_twoway, score, subject, rater, type = "agreement", seed = 1))
ml <- tidy(icc(ratings_twoway, score, subject, rater, type = "agreement", ci_method = "mpl"))
```

```{r ci-mpl-table, echo = FALSE, eval = requireNamespace("glmmTMB", quietly = TRUE) && requireNamespace("gt", quietly = TRUE)}
data.frame(
  term = mc2$term, estimate = mc2$estimate,
  mc_low = mc2$conf.low, mc_high = mc2$conf.high,
  ml_low = ml$conf.low, ml_high = ml$conf.high
) |>
  gt::gt() |>
  gt::tab_header(title = "Monte-Carlo and modified profile-likelihood 95% intervals on ratings_twoway") |>
  gt::fmt_number(columns = estimate, decimals = 3) |>
  gt::fmt_number(columns = mc_low:ml_high, decimals = 2) |>
  gt::cols_merge(columns = c(mc_low, mc_high), pattern = "[{1}, {2}]") |>
  gt::cols_merge(columns = c(ml_low, ml_high), pattern = "[{1}, {2}]") |>
  gt::cols_label(
    term = "Coefficient",
    estimate = "Estimate",
    mc_low = "Monte-Carlo",
    ml_low = "Modified profile likelihood"
  )
```

The two point estimates agree, from the same REML fit. The `"mpl"` interval
is the wider of the pair at this comfortably interior cell. That is the
conservatism described above, visible on ordinary data.

## Bayesian credible intervals (`ci_method = "posterior"`)

This interval comes with the brms engine, and it is the interval to use when
you fit with that engine. `ci_method = "posterior"` is automatic there, and
required. You choose it by choosing the engine, not the other way round.

When the fit is Bayesian (`engine = "brms"`, see [*Estimation
engines*](engines.html#a-bayesian-engine-brms)), the interval is neither a
Monte-Carlo nor a bootstrap *confidence* interval. It is a **credible**
interval read directly off the posterior draws of the ICC, a [different kind
of statement](glossary.html#confidence-interval-vs--credible-interval) about
where the ICC lies.

As in the engines article, the brms chunks below are shown with pre-computed
output, so they are not evaluated at knit time. Fitting a Stan model needs a
toolchain not available when this site is built.

```{r posterior, eval = FALSE}
icc(ratings, score, subject, rater, engine = "brms", type = "agreement", seed = 1)
```

```
#> ── Intraclass correlation: two-way random, absolute agreement ──────────────────
#> Subjects: 6 | Raters: 4 (random) | Observations: 24 of 24 cells (complete)
#> Engine: brms (MCMC) | CI: 95% posterior credible (4000 draws)
#>
#>   index     estimate   95% CI
#>   ICC(A,1)     0.241   [0.066, 0.649]
#>   ICC(A,k)     0.679   [0.221, 0.881]
#>
#> Variance components: subject 1.522, rater 2.653, residual 0.962
#> Shrout & Fleiss equivalent: ICC(A,1) = ICC(2,1), ICC(A,k) = ICC(2,k)
```

The point estimate is the [posterior mode
(MAP)](glossary.html#posterior-mode-map), the peak of the posterior
distribution. The default interval is a **percentile** credible interval: the
lower `2.5%` and upper `97.5%` quantiles of the ICC draws. Percentile is the
default because it is invariant to how the ICC is parameterized. It also
degrades gracefully as a variance component approaches zero (ten Hove et al.
2020, §4.2). They find it nominal at more than two raters.

### Highest-posterior-density intervals

For comparison you can ask for a **highest-posterior-density interval**
(HPDI), the *narrowest* interval containing 95% of the posterior mass.
Request it with `posterior_summary = "hpdi"`:

```{r posterior-hpdi, eval = FALSE}
icc(ratings, score, subject, rater, engine = "brms",
  type = "agreement", posterior_summary = "hpdi", seed = 1)
```

```
#> ── Intraclass correlation: two-way random, absolute agreement ──────────────────
#> Subjects: 6 | Raters: 4 (random) | Observations: 24 of 24 cells (complete)
#> Engine: brms (MCMC) | CI: 95% posterior credible (HPDI) (4000 draws)
#>
#>   index     estimate   95% CI
#>   ICC(A,1)     0.241   [0.040, 0.601]
#>   ICC(A,k)     0.679   [0.256, 0.904]
#>
#> Variance components: subject 1.522, rater 2.653, residual 0.962
#> Shrout & Fleiss equivalent: ICC(A,1) = ICC(2,1), ICC(A,k) = ICC(2,k)
```

The header now flags `(HPDI)`, and on the same draws the interval is no wider
than the percentile one. That is what "narrowest" means. Here `ICC(A,1)` is
`[0.04, 0.60]` against the percentile `[0.07, 0.65]`, and the point estimate
(the MAP) is unchanged. Percentile stays the default, because HPDI is not
transform-invariant and can behave less well at the variance boundary. It is
offered for comparison, not as an upgrade.