Hi_Henry
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"Let the Creative Statistical Games Begin!!"
The Public will know nothing about this, and attempting to explain this would be a challenge.
A very enlightening article showing some devilish/devious means of hiding "information" through mathematics.
The Public will know nothing about this, and attempting to explain this would be a challenge.
Look at the numerator of this formula. The variables a and b are specific to each vaccine. Now, consider what would happen if an extremely dangerous vaccine were introduced that resulted in 20 times as many AEs of all types as all the other vaccines to which it gets compared.
The PRR remains invariant in the scaling of adverse events!
This means that one vaccine that kills and cripples 20 or 50 or 1,000 times as much as a very safe vaccine will show the same PRR (mild adjustments for variables c and d notwithstanding), and no safety signal will be identified by the CDC.
LinkIt is not necessary to scale all of the AEs to hide a signal with this function. The numerator-fraction of the PRR changes only slightly when a handful of AEs scale up, even for extreme values of the scalar, k. Here is an example where AEs of various kinds are reported in numeracy (55, 7, 6, 11) for one vaccine, and 20 or 1,000 times as many of the first two AEs are reported for another:
Since the numerator does not change all that much as the AE numeracy scales, and the denominator remains unchanged, the potential for a signal changes very little.
A very enlightening article showing some devilish/devious means of hiding "information" through mathematics.