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Luigi Di Lorenzo1, Valeria Coco1, Francesco Forte1
1Rehabilitation Unit, Gait Analysis Lab, Neuroscience Department. "RUMMO" Hospital, Benevento, Italy Biomedical Research Centre, Gruppo Forte Salerno The New Medical Home for Pain Management and Medical Mentoring, New York, USA.
Abstract:
When researchers conduct large prospective studies, they provide results generating statistical analysis; therefore readers need considerable familiarity with descriptive and inferential statistics. If quantitative judgments are based on interpreting odds ratios as though they were relative risks, they are unlikely to be seriously in error. Because of the calculating method, the OR is often less precise than the RR in estimating the strength of an association, and this should definitely be kept in mind by anyone who reads and interprets the results of a large population based-study.
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