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Excess Relative Risk as an Effect Measure in Case-Control Studies of Rare Diseases

Epidemiologists often use ratio-type indices (rate ratio, risk ratio and odds ratio) to quantify the association between exposure and disease. By comparison, less attention has been paid to effect measures on a difference scale (excess rate or excess risk). The excess relative risk (ERR) used primar...

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Autor principal: Lee, Wen-Chung
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4412639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25919483
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121141