Informational Odds Ratio: A Useful Measure of Epidemiologic Association in Environment Exposure Studies
Informational Odds Ratio: A Useful Measure of Epidemiologic Association in Environment Exposure Studies
The informational odds ratio (IOR) measures the post-exposure odds divided by the pre-exposure odds (ie, information gained after knowing exposure status). A desirable property of an adjusted ratio estimate is collapsibility (ie, the combined crude ratio will not change after adjusting for a variable that is not a confounder). Adjusted …