Probability and odds play a large role in explaining the results of medical studies. Yet, they are not the same, and knowing how to understand odds will make it easier to separate the signal from the ...

For comparison of proportions, there are three commonly used measurements: the difference, the relative risk, and the odds ratio. Significant effort has been spent on exact confidence intervals for ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The finite-sample properties of various point estimators of a common odds ratio from multiple 2 x 2 tables have been considered in a number of ...