Pitfalls in epidemiological analysis.
Epidemiologists rely heavily on the relative risk in their analyses and presentations. As an index it is intelligible and intuitively appealing but can give an exaggerated impression of the strength of the association and is unreliable for comparisons. This can be shown by deriving relative risks fr...
| Published in: | Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 70 - 74 |
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| Format: | pictorial Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
1997 Jun
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