CHARACTERIZING EXPOSURE–DISEASE ASSOCIAT
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WEN-CHUNG LEE
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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To characterize exposure-disease association in human populations, epidemiologists have long relied upon such indices as 'relative risk' and/or 'attributable risk'. However, the relative risk is not in a common unit which permits comparison across different exposures or different diseases and the at