The odds ratio: some considerations
Over the last few years a growing number of retrospective and controlled cross-sectional studies using the odds ratio as a measure of intensity of the association have been published. The objectives of this article are: to compare the odds ratio with the prevalence ratio; to study the behavior of th...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1986 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP) |
| Repositorio: | Revista de Saúde Pública |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.usp.br:article/23359 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://www.revistas.usp.br/rsp/article/view/23359 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | "Odds ratio" Inferência Causalidade Epidemiologia^i1^sméto Odds ratio Inference Causality Epidemiology^i2^smeth |
| Resumo: | Over the last few years a growing number of retrospective and controlled cross-sectional studies using the odds ratio as a measure of intensity of the association have been published. The objectives of this article are: to compare the odds ratio with the prevalence ratio; to study the behavior of this measure with the sampling variation of the prevalence of the risk factor either in cases or in controls; and to give relevance to the expression of it in terms of confidence interval. |
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