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Message-ID: <E9E702F2-ECF9-4C82-99B6-1778FBABDA3D@comcast.net>
Date: 2013-01-30T20:35:52Z
From: David Winsemius
Subject: Relative Risk in logistic regression
In-Reply-To: <CALbLLOOFKAxj655pAr8xJAnLCzYgsf+yxzQaHz5eThpLeV6WXg@mail.gmail.com>

On Jan 30, 2013, at 5:49 AM, aminreza Aamini wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am very grateful to all those who write to me
> 1) how i  can  obtain relative risk (risk ratio) in logistic  
> regression in R.
> 2) how to obtain  the predicted risk for a certain individual using
> fitted regression model in R.

You obtain the predicted probabilities with something like:

predict(model, data.frame(x1="a", x2=30), type = "response")

See ?predict.glm

This would give the odds ratios (similar but larger than the risk  
ratios):

exp(coef(model))

-- 
David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA