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Re: st: calculating relative risk
On 4 Dec 2007, at 22:46, Sue Kim wrote:
Hi. I have a binary outcome where the probability of
outcome is low so I want to get an adjusted relative
risk (rather than odds ratio) using glm. When using
glm with fam(bin) link(log) command, I get a warning
"parameter estimates produce inadmissible mean
estimates in one or more observation". Could I still
use the results or is there a way to get around this
problem?
I think it's time to listen to Stata. The trouble with the relative
risk is that it can produce nonsense estimates of probability in some
cases. If a risk factor has a relative risk of 2, and a case has a
predicted probability, based on other risk factors, of 0.6, then the
addition of the final risk factor will bring the predicted risk to 1.2.
The odds ratio, for all its awkwardness, hasn't got this drawback.
Incidentally, Stata has a command -binreg- which is a canned version
of what you have been doing. It has an option to give you the
relative risk directly.
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