Unpublished Paper
Risk, Odds, and their Ratios
(2011)
Abstract
A brief monograph explaining the meaning of the terms, risk, risk ratio, odds, and odds ratio and how to calculate each, together with standard errors and confidence intervals. Stata code is provided showing how all of the terms can be calculated by hand, as well as by using logistic and Poisson models.
Keywords
- risk,
- risk ratio,
- odds,
- odds ratio,
- delta method,
- confidence interval
Disciplines
Publication Date
December 22, 2011
Citation Information
Joseph Hilbe. "Risk, Odds, and their Ratios" (2011) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/joseph_hilbe/29/