iNZightVIT / iNZightPlots

Plot functions for use by iNZight.
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Pop attr risk #318

Open tmelliott opened 1 month ago

tmelliott commented 1 month ago

Here's a couple of sources on PAR.

The detail - for statisticians… https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/096228020101000302

The basics - for epidemiologists… https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/52/4/212.full.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734469/pdf/ijerph-10-02932.pdf

The main issue I see for iNZight is the estimation of the prevalence of exposure. For a cohort study that is representative of the underlying population, the prevalence of exposure can be estimated from the total study population. For a case-control study, that can be thought of as a heavily stratified sample of the population (by case-status) the prevalence will be a weighted average of the cases and controls, but if a rare disease, much closer to the prevalence of exposure in the controls.

If the prevalence information were taken either from the total population or controls in a case-control study, then this would enable the estimation to be carried out using only the information in a 2x2 contingency table.

Variance estimation for PAR is not so important (at least for me), but here's a discussion, FYI...

https://www.mayo.edu/research/documents/tech-report-54/doc-20429047