PEDIATRICS Vol. 75 No. 6 June 1985, pp. 1169-1170
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In Reply: Relative Risk

W. THOMAS BOYCE MD1

1 Department of Pediatrics, The University of Arizona, Health Sciences Center, Tucson, AZ 85724

Sheps' point is appropriate and well-taken. Because of its greater familiarity to most readers, the term "relative risk" was used to refer to the comparative probability of various injury causes within sex and age categories of injured children. It would perhaps have been more accurate to describe this probability ratio as a "relative likelihood."