Risk ratios and odds ratios for common events in cross-sectional and cohort studies

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 649-651

  Wilber, Scott T ^a   Fu, Rongwei ^b  

^a NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Science University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER; FIBRIN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; FIBRIN FRAGMENT D;

COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; NOTE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM;

EID: 77953586277     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00773.x     Document Type: Note

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