CH&E 4010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Relative Risk, Ibm 7090, Asthma
12 May 2021
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Ch&e 4010 lecture 12 february 24, 2021 measures of association ii: calculating odds ratios. Learning objectives: review odds ratios and compare to relative risk as measures of association between an exposure and a disease, calculate and interpret an odds ratio (or) Even when odd ratios are correctly reported, they are not generated by calculations done by hand but are done logistic regression analysis. This is a study that looked at predictors of six-month outcomes on previously suicidal adolescents. This looked at a number of different variables and looking for an outcome with relation to suicidal behavior at 6-months follow up. One with suicidal behavior and one without suicidal behavior at 6-months follow up. The odds ratios were done via logistic regression rather than done by hand. Let"s take depression at baseline as our exposure and suicidal at 6 months follow up as outcome. Colorectal cancer (crc) is a leading cause of death from cancer in canada.
