Presenting the Uncertainties of Odds Ratios Using Empirical-Bayes Prediction Intervals

Quantifying exposure-disease associations is a central issue in epidemiology. Researchers of a study often present an odds ratio (or a logarithm of odds ratio, logOR) estimate together with its confidence interval (CI), for each exposure they examined. Here the authors advocate using the empirical-B...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lin, Wan-Yu, Lee, Wen-Chung
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3283699/