Controversy and Debate : Questionable utility of the relative risk in clinical research: Paper 4 :Odds Ratios are far from “portable” — A call to use realistic models for effect variation in meta-analysis

Recently Doi et al. argued that risk ratios should be replaced with odds ratios in clinical research. We disagreed, and empirically documented the lack of portability of odds ratios, while Doi et al. defended their position. In this response we highlight important errors in their position. We counte...

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