The odds ratio

By J. Bland, Douglas G. Altman. British medical journal, 2000

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Economic Self-Help group Programs for Improving Women's Empowerment: A Systematic Review (2015, background): “The odds ratio is the ratio of the odds of an event occurring in the group of beneficiaries to the odds of the same event occurring in the comparison group (Bland & Altman, 2000).”
Identifying biologically relevant differences between metagenomic communities (2010, background): “The odds ratio (OR) is widely used and has many desirable mathematical properties (Bland and Altman, 2000).”
Definitions and predictors of successful aging: a comprehensive review of larger quantitative studies. (2006, methodology): “We categorized variables as demonstrating an association if the 95% confidence interval of the odds ratio did not include one.(22) When multiple analyses with different numbers of control variables were presented, we reported the analysis with the most complete model tested.”
Life stress, the "kindling" hypothesis, and the recurrence of depression: considerations from a life stress perspective. (2005, background): “This means that the odds ratio for having depression and a major life event is the same as the odds ratio for having a major life event and depression (Bland & Altman, 2000).”
Risks of all‐cause and suicide mortality in mental disorders: a meta‐review (2014, background): “, death or suicide) in the exposed divided by the odds of such an event in the unexposed (7).”
The effect of rating scale format on response styles: the number of response categories and response catgory labels (2010, background): “The odds refer to the ratio of the probability that the event of interest occurs to the probability that it does not, and are often estimated by the ratio of the number of times that the event of interest occurs to the number of times that it does not (Bland & Altman, 2000).”