Informational Odds Ratio: A Useful Measure of Epidemiologic Association in Environment Exposure Studies

Environmental Health Insights

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Efird, Jimmy T ^a,b   Lea, Suzanne ^a   Toland, Amanda ^c   Phillips, Christopher J ^d  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

collapsibility; informational odds ratio; pre and post exposure odds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879686031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11786302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/EHI.S9236     Document Type: Article

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