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American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 163(12):1159-1161; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj164
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American Journal of Epidemiology Copyright © 2006 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health All rights reserved; printed in U.S.A.

Letter to the Editor

THE AUTHORS REPLY

Donna Spiegelman1,2 and Ellen Hertzmark1

1 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115
2 Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115

(e-mail: stdls@channing.harvard.edu)

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We agree with Drs. Neogi and Zhang (1Go) that direct calculations of point and interval estimates of univariate and multivariate-adjusted risk ratios and risk differences are useful for communicating results to the scientific community and the general public, and for public health policy and programmatic purposes. We are happy that our macro (2Go) (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/spiegelman/relrisk8.html) will make it easier to perform these calculations. In fact, since our editorial note was published, nearly 1,000 people have visited the Web page where the SAS macro has been posted, an indication of the interest in the public health community in performing these calculations.

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