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Course Notes - Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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• We get the same as when we calculated it in the traditional manner.• OR = 6.303 (1.447,27.455)• Just like yesterday though we call this the crude OR as it onlytakes into account the treatment, <strong>and</strong> none <strong>of</strong> the confounders.Let us redo the analysis this time including age <strong>of</strong> the mother asa confounder.• Y = Dieldrin > 0.009ppm ; 1 = Yes 0 = No• x 1 = House treated in the last 3 years; 1 = Yes 0 = No.• x 2 = Age <strong>of</strong> mother• Regression model is;Ln( p1−p ) = β 0 + β 1 x 1 + β 2 x 2 + ɛ• Where p is the probability that a person has elevated Dieldrinlevels.• logit(p) = −5.963 + 1.934x 1 + 0.1454x 2• The adjusted OR <strong>and</strong> Confidence interval258

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