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Course Notes - Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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Aspirin study example - gastrointestinal irritation• In the same study it was felt that the use <strong>of</strong> aspirin lead to anincrease in gastrointestinal irritation, so this information was alsocollected, <strong>and</strong> is summarised in the below table.Treatment Stroke No Stroke TotalAspirin 22 2280 2302Placebo 229 2038 2267251 4318 4569Attributable Risk:AR = 2292267 − 222302AR = 0.10101 − 0.00956AR = 0.09145Condfidence interval for attributable risk• The attributable risk is a essentially a difference in proportionproblem• So to calculate the confidence interval for Attributable risk wejust use the difference in proportion formula.√p1 (1−pp 1 − p 2 ± 1.96 ×1 )n 1+ p 2(1−p 2 )n 2where p 1 =w+x w <strong>and</strong>p 2 =yy+z√p1 (1 − p 1 )s.e.(AR) =+ p 2(1 − p 2 )n 1 n√ 20.10101(0.89899) 0.00956(1 − 0.99044)s.e.(AR) =+22672302s.e.(AR) = 0.00665148

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