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Relative Report Rate

By we denote the law of probability of a random variable conditionally given for another random variable , and by the binomial distribution with parameter . Then the multinomial model of contingency table is hierarchically described as a series of binomial distributions.

1. for the -th marginal count of adverse event.
2. for the -cell count.
The relative report rate is the ratio , and can be estimated by

where we use the following estimates:

and

The estimate is often referred as relative risk (RR),'' and will be used to compare with two other estimates, Empirical Bayes Geometric Mean (EBGM) by DuMouchel, and a Stein-like estimator (STEIN). Drug-reaction combinations are ranked according to the estimate of relative report rate. The table below will display the combinations from to in the rankings.

Provided the entries for DRUG and REAC, we can display their relative report rates and rankings from another method. This enables us to compare two different rankings.