Chapter 5: Comparing two proportions

Question 1

What are conditional proportions, and what are they used for?

Answer 1

Conditional proportions allow us to treat each group as an independent population and see if their respective proportions differ.

Question 2

What is relative risk ?

Answer 2

relative risk is the ratio of two conditional proportions
- it indicates how many times greater the risk of an outcome is for one group compared to another.