Timeline for Alternative name for "incidence rate ratio"
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| Mar 14, 2012 at 5:18 | comment | added | Michelle |
looks like the use comes from Stata, e.g. here ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/faq/relative_risk.htm and here data.princeton.edu/wws509/stata/c4s1.html. But I'm hard pressed to see how the number of "children ever born" can be viewed as an incidence (prevalence - maybe).
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| Mar 14, 2012 at 4:41 | vote | accept | fmark | ||
| Mar 14, 2012 at 4:41 | comment | added | fmark | @Michelle Yep, another paper in the field whose methods we are replicating. I have seen applied glm guides that present this estimate as an IRR regardless of field, which is where the confusion probably stems from. | |
| Mar 13, 2012 at 11:38 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackStats/status/179531929358581760 | ||
| Mar 13, 2012 at 7:16 | comment | added | Michelle | I agree with @EpiGrad's answer. I am wondering where this term cropped up in your situation - did someone publish a paper on the test using this term? | |
| Mar 13, 2012 at 5:42 | answer | added | Fomite | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 13, 2012 at 4:21 | history | asked | fmark | CC BY-SA 3.0 |