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Using data from epidemiologic studies to revise probabilities
1US Quality Algorithms, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, USA.
Primary Care
|June 1, 1995
Abstract:
Information about the relationship between risk factors and the probability of disease is often reported by an odds ratio, although its use for revising the probability of disease in a clinical setting is not intuitive and requires complex computations. A somewhat better approach is Bayesian probability revision. The authors present a method where likelihood ratios can be obtained from odds ratios, and they present simple computational methods for implementing all of the techniques described.