Comparative Analysis of Measures of Occurrence and Association

Choose one of the following four pairs of measures:

Relative risk vs. attributable risk
Cumulative incidence vs. incidence rate
Life table vs. Kaplan–Meier approach to calculating cumulative incidence
Odds ratio of disease vs. odds ratio of exposure

write a comparative analysis of the strengths and limitations of each measure within your pair. Then, explain assumptions that underlie each measure. Illustrate the comparison by providing examples from outside the course text of appropriate or inappropriate use of each measure. Justify your response.

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Introduction

Comparative analysis is a practice of comparing and contrasting two items or events. Comparative analysis of measures of occurrence and association is a methodology of analyzing events on the bases of their occurrences on a group of people. This is done mostly in following up diseases. There are various methods of carrying out the study including attributive risk and relative risks and they are discussed below.

Attributive Risk

This method indicates the number of cases of a disease among a particular group of people. It identifies the real figures of victims and they are followed up over a long period of time. The attributive risk is a desirable method as it is likely to give the correct estimated figures. The attributive risk may be desirable…..

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