Explaining odds ratios as conditional risk ratios

We thank Dr. Tedeschi [1] for his commentary on our paper [2]. Before responding, we recall that our original motivation was to provide a derivation of the odds ratio, OR (as  a parameter), that does not involve odds and which has an interpretation in terms of patient numbers as a conditional risk ratio given discordant pairs. This led us to then consider matched pairs, with dependence within pairs.

Source: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - October 31, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Fred M. Hoppe, Daniel J. Hoppe, Stephen D. Walter Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research