Download or read book Absolute or Crude Risk written by Mitchell H. Gail and published by Chapman and Hall/CRC. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Absolute risk is the probability of developing a specific disease over a specified time interval in the presence of competing causes of mortality. Although absolute risk is arguably more relevant to clinical decision making than "pure" risk, the development of appropriate statistical methods for estimating and applying absolute risk has lagged behind those for pure risk. This book focuses on the development, evaluation, and application of models of absolute risk.