Reconsidering the odds ratio as a measure of 2 × 2 association in a population

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 257-270

  Kraemer, Helena Chmura ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2 2 association; Kappa; Odds ratio; Phi; Risk difference; Risk ratio; ROC

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; POPULATION RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; ROC CURVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346463190     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1714     Document Type: Article

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