Relationship between prevalence rate ratios and odds ratios in cross-sectional studies

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 220-223

  Zocchetti, Carlo ^a   Consonni, Dario ^a   Bertazzi, Pier A ^b  

^a Clinica del Lavoro L Devoto   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cross sectional study; Log linear model; Prevalence odds ratio; Prevalence rate ratio

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0030940967     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/26.1.220     Document Type: Article

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