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. 2019 Feb 7;19:28. doi: 10.1186/s12874-019-0667-2

Table 4.

Illustration of the effect of collapsing exposure categories

X1=1 X1=2
X~2 Diseased Not diseased Total RR X~2 Diseased Not diseased Total RR
1 50 650 700 1.00 1 25 275 300 1.00
2 50 250 300 2.33 2 125 575 700 2.14

The table gives the observed situation after collapsing