categorical data

Example 8.29: Risk ratios and odds ratios

March 7, 2011 | Ken Kleinman

When can you safely think of an odds ratio as being similar to a risk ratio?Many people find odds ratios hard to interpret, and thus would prefer to have risk ratios. In response to this, you can find several papers that purport to convert an odds rat...
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Example 7.18: Displaying missing value categories in a table

December 14, 2009 | Ken Kleinman

When displaying contingency tables (section 2.3.1), there are times when it is useful to either show or hide the missing data category. Both SAS and the typical R command default to displaying the table only for observations where both factors are observed.In this example, we generate some multinomial data (section 1.10.4) ...
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