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relative risk: a standalone construct

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Epidemiology

the ratio of the probability of an outcome in an exposed group to its probability in an unexposed group.

In epidemiology, relative risk refers to the ratio of the probability of an outcome in an exposed group to its probability in an unexposed group. This meaning comes from Zhang (1998) in JAMA.[1]

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Recovery means
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References

Zhang, J., & Yu, K. F. (1998). What's the relative risk? A method of correcting the odds ratio in cohort studies of common outcomes. JAMA, 280(19), 1690. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.280.19.1690

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