st: Use of the term 'relative risk ratio'

[Ron�n Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

I have a reviewer who is grumbling about the use of 'relative risk 
ratio' to describe the effect estimates from multinomial logistic 
regression. And it's the second time this has happened. The reviewer 
feels that they ought to be called odds ratios, to prevent confusion 
with relative risks (and that is a good point).

I would like to preserve the distinction between vanilla-flavour odds 
ratios and relative risk ratios, but am a little unhappy that the term 
is causing more heat than light.

Has anyone else experienced the problem? Is there a more useful way of 
describing RRRs out there?

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Ronan M Conroy (rconroy@rcsi.ie) 
Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics 
Royal College of Surgeons 
Dublin 2, Ireland 
+353 1 402 2431 (fax 2764) 
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