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Odds ratio refers to the chance of an event versus the chance of a non-event.
The odds ratio provides information about the chance that an event will occur given a specific condition. For example, determine the association between exposure to agent A and disease by determining the chance that an exposure is more or less likely to give disease . The following is a 2 by 2 table used to compute the odds ratio. Enter the data in the cells for the appropriate rows and columns, then compute the Odds Ratio. For further interesting statistics, click here .