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Comment
. 2012 Jan;23(1):10-2; discussion 13-4.
doi: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31823b5492.

Commentary: The wizard of odds

Richard F MacLehose  1 , Jay S Kaufman
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Commentary: The wizard of odds

Richard F MacLehose et al. Epidemiology. 2012 Jan.
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Figure 1
Magnitude of confounder-disease association necessary to result in an adjusted ORm=1=1.0 (B=0.76) for values of π0m and π1m. Prevalence values contained between the vertical planes are those for which no possible value of γ can result in an adjusted OR(m=1) (B=0.76).
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