A modified poisson regression approach to prospective studies with binary data
Zou G;;
american journal of epidemiology2004Vol. 159pp. -
227
g2004americana
Abstract
Relative risk is usually the parameter of interest in epidemiologic and medical studies. In this paper, the author proposes a modified Poisson regression approach (i.e., Poisson regression with a robust error variance) to estimate this effect measure directly. A simple 2-by-2 table is used to justif …