I have a reviewer who is grumbling about the use of 'relative risk
ratio' to describe the effect estimates from multinomial logistic
regression. And it's the second time this has happened. The reviewer
feels that they ought to be called odds ratios, to prevent confusion
with relative risks (and that is a good point).
I would like to preserve the distinction between vanilla-flavour odds
ratios and relative risk ratios, but am a little unhappy that the term
is causing more heat than light.
Has anyone else experienced the problem? Is there a more useful way of
describing RRRs out there?
--
Ronan M Conroy ([email protected])
Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics
Royal College of Surgeons
Dublin 2, Ireland
+353 1 402 2431 (fax 2764)
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