Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hazard ratio

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English

Syllables
haz-ard ra-tio
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A measure of the chance of an event in one group compared to that of another at a particular time or over a subset of a study's time; the ratio between two groups' hazard rates.

Inflected Forms

Phrases

hazard rate odds ratio relative risk relative risk ratio relative risk reduction risk ratio

Frequently Paired Words

hazard rate odds ratio relative risk relative risk ratio relative risk reduction RRR risk ratio HR

Questions

What does hazard ratio mean?
A measure of the chance of an event in one group compared to that of another at a particular time or over a subset of a study's time; the ratio between two groups' hazard rates.

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