The extrapolation of attributable risk to new populations
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1Biometry and Field Studies Branch, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Statistics in Medicine
|June 1, 1988
Abstract:
I develop a method for extrapolation of attributable risk estimated from one population, to other populations with a different rate of risk factor exposure and/or rate of outcome. The method uses the relationship between attributable risk and the product moment correlation.