One relative risk versus two odds ratios: Implications for meta-analyses involving paired and unpaired binary data

Clinical Trials

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-31

  Zou, Yong Guang ^a,b  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE COURSE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

HUMANS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; META-ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34250366725     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: 17407753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1740774506075667     Document Type: Article

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