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Deriving the values of the range around the mean value

This is part of a bigger quantitative reasoning assignment I was working on. My understanding here is that the upper bound and lower bound of the ranges for each of the exercises should be reflected ...
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Is meta-analysis of odds ratios essentially hopeless?

In a recent paper Norton et al. (2018)$^{[2]}$ state that Different odds ratios from the same study cannot be compared when the statistical models that result in odds ratio estimates have different ...
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Adjusting OR for confounding variable with non linear interaction

I have looked for similar cases but couldn't really find the answer to my question. I want to assess the impact (with an OR in logistic regression) of a predictor X1 on a binary response variable Y ...
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Adjusted Odds Ratios

I'm reading an article where the AOR was computed after adjusting for confounders; when I calculated the OR it was lower than the AOR presented in the article. Why did the AOR increase? I thought it ...
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How to "statistically adjust" for variables? [duplicate]

I've been trying to understand what means "statistically adjusted" when comparing two variables. For example, when computing the odds ratio for a death after surgery in two hospitals, we compute the ...
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Converting Adjusted Odds Ratios to its RR counterpart

I am doing a meta-analysis of studies which reported their estimates sometimes as OR and sometimes as RR. I wanted to convert the OR to RR, so that I can pool them together. I know that I can use this ...
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