On the Relations Between Excess Fraction, Attributable Fraction, and Etiologic Fraction
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On the relations between excess fraction, attributable fraction, and etiologic fraction.
It has been noted that there is ambiguity in the expression "attributable fraction," and epidemiologic literature has drawn a distinction between "excess fraction" and "etiologic fraction." These quantities do not necessarily approximate one another, and the etiologic fraction is not generally estimable without strong biologic assumptions. In previous studies, researchers have explained the rel...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1476-6256,0002-9262
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwr333