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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiology. 2017 Jul;28(4):553–561. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000664

Table 3.

Joint distribution of treatment A and outcome Y in the target population and data from nonrandom study sample from Table 1 (n=2,000)

Target population (probabilities) Study sample (n=2,000)


Y=0 Y=1 Risk Y=0 Y=1 Risk
A=0 0.414 0.089 0.177 A=0 643 383 0.373
A=1 0.439 0.061 0.123 A=1 738 236 0.242


Risk difference: −0.055 −0.131