A regression-based method for estimating risks and relative risks in case-base studies

Both the absolute risk and the relative risk (RR) have a crucial role to play in epidemiology. RR is often approximated by odds ratio (OR) under the rare-disease assumption in conventional case-control study; however, such a study design does not provide an estimate for absolute risk. The case-base...

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Veröffentlicht in:PloS one 2013-12, Vol.8 (12), p.e83275-e83275
Hauptverfasser: Chui, Tina Tsz-Ting, Lee, Wen-Chung
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