Relative Risk, Odds Ratio, Attributable Risk and Number Needed to Treat
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The research may or may not be epidemiological but there is a high likelihood that it would use the epidemiological indices discussed in this note. Rate, risk, hazard, incidence, and prevalence are everyday indices of disease occurrence that are used in a large number of research endeavours. Although these indices apparently look simple but many researchers are not fully comfortable in their usage. The following description should be helpful in that case.
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