Noncollapsibility, confounding, and sparse-data bias. Part 2 : What should researchers make of persistent controversies about the odds ratio?

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A previous note illustrated how the odds of an outcome have an undesirable property for risk summarization and communication: Noncollapsibility, defined as a failure of a group measure to represent a simple average of the measure over individuals or subgroups. The present sequel discusses how odds ratios amplify odds noncollapsibility and provides a basic numeric illustration of how noncollapsibility differs from confounding of effects (with which it is often confused). It also draws a connection of noncollapsibility to sparse-data bias in logistic, log-linear, and proportional-hazards regression.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:139

Enthalten in:

Journal of clinical epidemiology - 139(2021) vom: 01. Nov., Seite 264-268

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Greenland, Sander [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Causality
Collapsibility
Confounding
Journal Article
Logistic regression
Noncollapsibility
Odds Ratio
Rate Ratio
Simpson's paradox
Sparse-data bias

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Date Completed 20.12.2021

Date Revised 20.12.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.06.004

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NLM326675434