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BobbyBear
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Hi, just a small doubt I'm having:
I'm given a cross tabulation table, such as undernourished status versus gender of the child:
-----------------------------undernourished
-----------------------------yes--------no
--------------------boy------37-------- 86
---------gender
--------------------girl-------40--------74suppose we are told to compute the relative risk of being undernourished with the reference group being boys,
I think we should compute: (40/(40+74)) / (38/(37+86))
and not the other way around, right?
Likewise, the odds ratio of being undernourished with the reference group being boys would be: (40/74) / (38/86) and not the other way around, I suppose?
I just want to make sure what "with the reference group being boys" means... I'm assuming it means it means odds of undernourished girls to odds of undernourished boys, but I'm not 100% sure if it means this or if it might mean we are interested in boys so it should be odds of boys to odds of girls?
thanks!
I'm given a cross tabulation table, such as undernourished status versus gender of the child:
-----------------------------undernourished
-----------------------------yes--------no
--------------------boy------37-------- 86
---------gender
--------------------girl-------40--------74suppose we are told to compute the relative risk of being undernourished with the reference group being boys,
I think we should compute: (40/(40+74)) / (38/(37+86))
and not the other way around, right?
Likewise, the odds ratio of being undernourished with the reference group being boys would be: (40/74) / (38/86) and not the other way around, I suppose?
I just want to make sure what "with the reference group being boys" means... I'm assuming it means it means odds of undernourished girls to odds of undernourished boys, but I'm not 100% sure if it means this or if it might mean we are interested in boys so it should be odds of boys to odds of girls?
thanks!