The odds ratio: impact of study design.
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In the previous column 1 we considered the “two-by-two” contingency table, a simple square array used to provide a tabular display of the relationship between two categorical variables, each having only two levels. Figure 1 shows such a table, where the rows correspond to nutritional status and the columns correspond to disease status. We showed that the relationship between the two variables can be described in terms of the odds ratio,
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Nutrition
دوره 16 11-12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000