Alternatives for logistic regression in cross-sectional studies: an empirical comparison of models that directly estimate the prevalence ratio

BACKGROUND: Cross-sectional studies with binary outcomes analyzed by logistic regression are frequent in the epidemiological literature. However, the odds ratio can importantly overestimate the prevalence ratio, the measure of choice in these studies. Also, controlling for confounding is not equival...

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Autores principales: Barros, Aluísio JD, Hirakata, Vânia N
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2003
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC521200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14567763
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-3-21

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC521200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14567763
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-3-21

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