ENH 122 Lecture 5: Attack-Rate Tables.pdf

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Look at the difference in attack rates between exposed and non-exposed people. Positive difference is where you will find the real culprit. The difference column is a first clue to identifying the cause, and it has a name - the attributable. Another risk measurement is often used to give more information - the odds ratio. estimate of the even more powerful relative risk). The odds ratio actually tells us the power of the relationship between exposure and illness. (it is actually an. The odds ratio tells us we can estimate that people who ate the food were 12. 7 times as likely to have been ill when compared with those who did not eat the e food. [ note that an error here was just found and corrected (april 17 2012). Director just pointed out that the attributable risk value had been quoted by mistake.

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