Prevalence odds ratio or prevalence ratio in the analysis of cross sectional data: What is to be done?

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 272-277

  Thompson, Mary Lou ^a,b   Myers, J E ^b   Kriebel, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross sectional study; Logistic regression; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031894770     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.55.4.272     Document Type: Article

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