When can odds ratios mislead?

BMJ

Volumn 316, Issue 7136, 1998, Pages 989-991

  Davies, Huw Talfryn Oakley ^a   Crombie, Iain Kinloch ^b   Tavakoli, Manouche ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0032574489     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.316.7136.989     Document Type: Article

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3. Altman DG. Practical statistics for medical research. London: Chapman and Hall, 1991.