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What is a risk ratio?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2011

Andrea Cipriani,
Michela Nosè and
Corrado Barbui
Andrea Cipriani*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine and Public Health, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona
Michela Nosè
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine and Public Health, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona
Corrado Barbui
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine and Public Health, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona
*
Address for correspondence: Dr. A. Cipriani, Department of Medicine and Public Health, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona, Piazzale L.A. Scuro, 10, 37134 Verona, Italy. Fax: +39-045-585871 E-mail: andrea.cipriani@univr.it
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Keywords

relative riskodds ratioabsolute risk reductionnumber needed to treatstatistics.

Information

Type
ABC of Methodology
Information
Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 2007, pp. 20 - 21
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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