Our commentary underlines important issues that should be considered when clinically
relevant effect measures are estimated from logistic regression by means of the methods
recently proposed by Peter Austin.
- •The research question has to be taken into account.
- •The study design has to be taken into account.
- •The performance of point and interval estimates has to be investigated.
- •A part of the work is already published.
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Publication history
Published online: September 18, 2009
Accepted:
July 1,
2009
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