“…\end{equation}$$Consider the following three statements, where
, and
- (1)A change in X or U would result in a smaller change in if the baseline risk was near 0 or 1 compared to near 0.5 (a statement made by O'Malley et al. (2022));
- (2)A change in X or U is equally likely to result in a change in if the baseline risk was near 0 or 1 compared to near 0.5 (our interpretation of O'Malley et al. (2022)'s comment relating to the logistic model);
- (3)A change in X or U is equally likely to result in a change in if the OP was near 0 or ∞ compared to near 1.
We believe that statements (1) and (2) appearing reasonable is due to the fact that while
is variation independent of
,
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