Methods for estimating relative risk in studies of common binary outcomes

AK Dwivedi, I Mallawaarachchi, S Lee… - Journal of applied …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Studying the effect of exposure or intervention on a dichotomous outcome is very common in
medical research. Logistic regression (LR) is often used to determine such association …

Estimation of relative risk and prevalence ratio

A Savu, Q Liu, Y Yasui - Statistics in Medicine, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Relative risks (RRs) and prevalence ratios (PRs) are measures of association that are more
intuitively interpretable than odds ratios (ORs). Many health science studies report OR …

[PDF][PDF] Statistical issues in estimation of adjusted risk ratio in prospective studies

L Janani, MA Mansournia, K Nourijeylani… - Archives of Iranian …, 2015 - journalaim.com
BACKGROUND: Binary outcomes are common in prospective studies such as randomized
controlled trials and cohort studies. Logistic regression is the most popular regression model …

Relative risk estimation in randomized controlled trials: a comparison of methods for independent observations

LN Yelland, AB Salter, P Ryan - The international journal of …, 2011 - degruyter.com
The relative risk is a clinically important measure of the effect of treatment on binary
outcomes in randomized controlled trials (RCTs). An adjusted relative risk can be estimated …

Down with odds ratios: risk ratios in cohort studies and randomised clinical trials

MJ Knol - Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Geneeskunde, 2012 - europepmc.org
Various effect measures are available for quantifying the relationship between an
intervention or a risk factor and an outcome, such as the risk ratio and the odds ratio. Odds …

Absolute risk reductions, relative risks, relative risk reductions, and numbers needed to treat can be obtained from a logistic regression model

PC Austin - Journal of clinical epidemiology, 2010 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Logistic regression models are frequently used in cohort studies to determine
the association between treatment and dichotomous outcomes in the presence of …

Relative risk regression in medical research: models, contrasts, estimators, and algorithms

T Lumley, R Kronmal, S Ma - 2006 - biostats.bepress.com
The relative risk or prevalence ratio is a natural and familiar summary of association
between a binary outcome and an exposure or intervention. For rare events, the relative risk …

Converting odds ratio to relative risk in cohort studies with partial data information

Z Wang - Journal of Statistical Software, 2013 - jstatsoft.org
In medical and epidemiological studies, the odds ratio is a commonly applied measure to
approximate the relative risk or risk ratio in cohort studies. It is well known tha such an …

Logistic regression was preferred to estimate risk differences and numbers needed to be exposed adjusted for covariates

U Gehrmann, O Kuss, J Wellmann, R Bender - Journal of clinical …, 2010 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: The estimation of the number needed to be exposed (NNE) with adjustment for
covariates can be performed by inverting the corresponding adjusted risk difference. The …

A modified poisson regression approach to prospective studies with binary data

G Zou - American journal of epidemiology, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Relative risk is usually the parameter of interest in epidemiologic and medical studies. In this
paper, the author proposes a modified Poisson regression approach (ie, Poisson regression …