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Missing and spurious interaction in additive, multiplicative and odds ratio models

Other Quantitative Biology 2017-12-13 v1

Abstract

Additive, multiplicative, and odd ratio neutral models for interactions are for long advocated and controversial in epidemiology. We show here that these commonly advocated models are biased, leading to spurious interactions, and missing true interactions.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1712.04412,
  title  = {Missing and spurious interaction in additive, multiplicative and odds ratio models},
  author = {Jorge Fernandez-de-Cossio and Jorge Fernandez-de-Cossio-Diaz and Toshifumi Takao and Yasser Perera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.04412},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures

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