{"id":8623,"date":"2019-05-22T16:09:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/odds_ratio\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:09:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:43","slug":"odds_ratio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/odds_ratio\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds ratio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The odds of a given outcome (= p\/q, where p is the proportion with the outcome and q is the proportion without the outcome) for participants with a particular characteristic, divided by the odds of that outcome for participants without the characteristic (or with one unit less of the characteristic). &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2938757\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2938757\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Helpful outlines<\/a> of how the statistic can be applied in epidemiological studies are available as are warnings about its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/316\/7136\/989\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/316\/7136\/989&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">misuses<\/a>. &nbsp;Also available are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medcalc.org\/calc\/odds_ratio.php\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.medcalc.org\/calc\/odds_ratio.php&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">calculators<\/a>&nbsp;for the ratio and associated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hutchon.net\/ConfidOR.htm\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.hutchon.net\/ConfidOR.htm&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confidence intervals<\/a>. &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"attributable_fraction\">Attributable fraction<\/a>, <a href=\"case-comparison_design\">Case-comparison design<\/a>, <a href=\"cumulative_incidence_-ci-\">Cumulative incidence (CI)<\/a>, <a href=\"epidemiological_studies\">Epidemiological studies<\/a>, <a href=\"epidemiology\">Epidemiology<\/a>, <a href=\"hazard_ratio\">Hazard ratio<\/a>, <a href=\"influence_efficacy\">Influence efficacy<\/a>, <a href=\"likelihood_ratio_-lr-\">Likelihood ratio (LR)<\/a>, <a href=\"precision\">Precision<\/a>, Rate ratio<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The odds of a given outcome (= p\/q, where p is the proportion with the outcome and q is the proportion without the outcome) for participants with a particular characteristic, divided by the odds of that outcome for participants without the characteristic (or with one unit less of the characteristic). &nbsp;Helpful outlines of how the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/odds_ratio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Odds ratio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}