Use of the prevalence ratio v the prevalence odds ratio as a measure of risk in cross sectional studies.
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Prevalence odds ratio or prevalence ratio in the analysis of cross sectional data: what is to be done?
OBJECTIVES To review the appropriateness of the prevalence odds ratio (POR) and the prevalence ratio (PR) as effect measures in the analysis of cross sectional data and to evaluate different models for the multivariate estimation of the PR. METHODS A system of linear differential equations corresponding to a dynamic model of a cohort with a chronic disease was developed. At any point in time,...
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Odds ratio, risk ratio, and prevalence ratio are some of the measures of association which are often reported in research studies quantifying the relationship between an independent variable and the outcome of interest. There has been much debate on the issue of which measure is appropriate to report depending on the study design. However, the literature on selecting a particular category of th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 1994
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.51.8.574