# Should one derive risk difference from the odds ratio?

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**Category:** bayes\
**Tags:** absolute-risk\
**Created:** [May 13, 2021, 11:49pm UTC](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/should-one-derive-risk-difference-from-the-odds-ratio/4403 "2021-05-13T23:49:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![davidcnorrismd](https://discourse.datamethods.org/user_avatar/discourse.datamethods.org/davidcnorrismd/32/3502_2.png) [@davidcnorrismd](https://discourse.datamethods.org/u/davidcnorrismd)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 1:52am UTC](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/should-one-derive-risk-difference-from-the-odds-ratio/4403/403 "2022-09-16T01:52:00Z")

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Have you considered that maybe everyone is still burned out from [the last time something like this happened](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/observed-power-and-other-power-issues/731)?

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