Shall we count the living or the dead? In the 1958 paper "Shall we count the living or the dead?", Mindel C. Sheps proposed a principled solution to the familiar problem of asymmetry of the relative risk. We provide causal models to clarif...

#statstab #456 Shall we count the living or the dead?

Thoughts: survival ratio -> if the intervention increases risk of the outcome
risk ratio -> if the intervention reduces risk of the outcome

#causalinference #riskratios #survivalanalysis #estimand

arxiv.org/abs/2106.063...

Risk Ratio, odds ratio, risk difference… Which causal measure is easier to generalize?

#statstab #389 Risk Ratio, odds ratio, risk difference: Which causal measure is easier to generalize?

Thoughts: Use this with #388 for better insight into risk, odds, probabilities, and more.

Courtesy of @pgmj.bsky.social

#odds #oddsratios #riskratios #probability

arxiv.org/html/2303.16...

The odds are it's wrong: Correcting a common mistake in statistics Binary logistic regression is one of the most widely used statistical tools. The method uses odds, log odds, and odds ratios, which are difficult to understand and interpret. Understanding of logisti....

#statstab #388 The odds are it's wrong: Correcting a common mistake in statistics

Thoughts: Report probabilities instead, which in R (not SPSS) can be easily computed for your models.

#odds #oddsratios #riskratios #probability #r #logisticregression

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