Re: st: Use of the term 'relative risk ratio'

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 09:09 AM 4/21/2005 -0500, Roberto G. Gutierrez, StataCorp wrote:
> There has been some discussion about the use of the term 'relative risk ratio'
> to describe the exponentiated coefficients from an -mlogit- model.  To start,
> I agree that the issue can be confusing and I am open as to how the confusion
> can be mitigated.
Personally, I'd have no objection to supporting the eform option on every 
appropriate command, and having the column labeled as exp(b).  That is 
always an accurate term, right?  However it is labeled, the user has to 
know how to interpret it.

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