Nuances between immigrant population for developing

nuances between immigrant population for developing VDD and SVDD
 Descriptive analysis again because no RR, OR, hazard ratio
o No measure of association here
o Similar to table 1
 Not important if youre from West Africa or E. Europe (p values unsignificant)
 Important if from East Africa, other or S.E asia (significant p value)
 The more strata you put, the smaller your sample size is, the smaller the sample size is,
you can’t do significant tests and get results when you have smaller data
o Losing Power—ability to detect a stat significant result between E & O if there is
one
Confounding Factor
 Confounding
o Distortion of association between an intervention and a response brought about
by an extraneous cofactor/confounder
o Mixing of effects between an exposure and an outcome and a 3 rd variable known
as a confounder
o Variable in secondary pathway that may help us explain relationship on main
pathway, or it may not—secondary pathway variable
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o Does eating ice cream more make folks want to commit murder, or does killing
result in a desire to eat ice cream?