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Ratio

Definition
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Quotient comparing two measures (e.g. incidence in exposed vs unexposed); relative risk and odds ratio are common comparative ratios.

Topics
Epidemiology
Related
Relative Risk Odds Ratio Hazard Ratio

Why it matters in GWAS

Epidemiologic measures and designs frame how phenotypes, sampling, and time-to-event endpoints are defined—directly affecting GWAS interpretation, meta-analysis, and translation.

Example usage

"The methods explicitly include Ratio in the end-to-end analysis workflow."

Relative Risk Odds Ratio Hazard Ratio
Related-term network

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References

  • Rothman KJ, Greenland S, Lash TL. (2008). Modern Epidemiology. Wolters Kluwer.
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