Advanced statistics: Up with odds ratios! A case for odds ratios when outcomes are common

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1430-1434

  Cook, Thomas D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b 209 WARF Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Differences; Odds ratios; Outcomes; Risk ratios; Statistics

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SHOCK, HEMORRHAGIC;

EID: 0036896766     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.9.12.1430     Document Type: Review

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