Users' Guides to the Medical Literature
Guyatt G, Rennie D, Meade MO, Cook DJ
Part B Therapy
Chapter 10.2. Understanding the Results: More About Odds Ratios
Roman Jaeschke, Stephen Walter, Mahmoud El Barbary, Gordon Guyatt
Odds in Ordinary Life
Topics Discussed:
interpretation of results, odds, odds ratios (relative odds), probability, understanding the results
Excerpt:
"You might be most familiar with odds in
the context of sporting events, when bookmakers or newspaper commentators
quote the odds for and against a horse, a boxer, or a tennis player
winning a particular event...."
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