Technical note: The risk ratio, an alternative to the odds ratio for estimating the association between multiple risk factors and a dichotomous outcome

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2576-2584

  Ospina, P A ^a   Nydam, D V ^b   DiCiccio, T J ^c  

^a Program on Infrastructure Policy   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c School of Industrial and Labor Relations   (United States)

Author keywords

Odds ratio; Poisson; Risk ratio; SAS software

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; METHODOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84860237417     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2011-4515     Document Type: Article

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