Reporting only relative effect measures was potentially misleading: some good practices for improving the soundness of epidemiological results

•There is a growing tendency to report an excessive number of decimal digits; this can be misleading.•We combined statistical reasoning about the precision of relative risks with the meaning of the decimal part of the same measures from biological perspectives.•A general rule depending on the backgr...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of clinical epidemiology 2021-09, Vol.137, p.195-199
Hauptverfasser:	Novelli, Marco, Baldi Antognini, Alessandro, Boffetta, Paolo, Ioannidis, John PA, Spatari, Giovanna, Violante, Francesco S
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Approximation Confidence intervals Digits Epidemiology Mathematical analysis Observational studies Public health Relative risk Risk assessment Rounding Rounding error, Odds ratio, Confidence intervals Statistical precision
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