Attributable Risk
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32833-1_16
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The attributable risk is the difference between the risk encountered by individuals exposed to a particular factor and the risk encountered by individuals who are not exposed to it. This is the opposite to avoidable risk. It measures the absolute effect of a cause (that is, the excess risk or cases of illness).
HISTORY
See risk.
MATHEMATICAL ASPECTS
By definition we have:
$$ \begin{aligned} \text{attributable risk} = \text{risk for those exposed}\\ - \text{risk for those not exposed}\:. \end{aligned} $$
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