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 variabl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jimmy T. Efird, Suzanne Lea, Amanda Toland, Christopher J. Phillips
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2012-01-01
Series:Environmental Health Insights
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4137/EHI.S9236