In
statistics and mathematical
epidemiology, relative risk (RR) is the risk of an event (or of developing a disease) relative to exposure. Relative risk is a
ratio of the
probability of the event occurring in the exposed group versus the control (non-exposed) group. For example, if the
probability of developing lung cancer among smokers was 20
nd among non-smokers 1%, then the relative risk of cancer associated with smoking would be 20. Smokers would be twenty times as likely as non-smokers to develop lung cancer.
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