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ArticlePloS one2020

A method of back-calculating the log odds ratio and standard error of the log odds ratio from the reported group-level risk of disease.

Dapeng Hu, Chong Wang, Annette M O'Connor

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Article in PloS one, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dapeng HuDepartment of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-7307-1454
Chong WangDepartment of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-4489-4344
Annette M O'ConnorDepartment of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America.
Iowa State University · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In clinical trials and observational studies, the effect of an intervention or exposure can be reported as an absolute or relative comparative measure such as risk difference, odds ratio or risk ratio, or at the group level with the estimated risk of disease in each group. For meta-analysis of results with covariate adjustment, the log of the odds ratio (log odds ratio), with its standard error, is a commonly used measure of effect. However, extracting the adjusted log odds ratio from the reported estimates of disease risk in each group is not straightforward. Here, we propose a method to transform the adjusted probability of the event in each group to the log of the odds ratio and obtain the appropriate (approximate) standard error, which can then be used in a meta-analysis. We also use example data to compare our method with two other methods and show that our method is superior in calculating the standard error of the log odds ratio.

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DiseaseModels, StatisticalResearch DesignAnimalsHumansOdds RatioRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicRiskSoftware

Identifiers

PMID32126072
PMCPMC7053742
OpenAlexW3009661454

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