Tell us Anders, where did you find out about Abbott's paper and why did you obtain and read it? After all,at the Datamethods blog on July 4 you repeatedly dismissed my comments that mechanistic models and risk results go back to the 1920s, replying
"It therefore isn’t at all obvious to me that reading the old literature is generally the best use of time" and "I wouldn’t try to learn calculus from Newton or Leibniz’ original writings, and likewise, I wouldn’t try to learn causal inference from Robins (1986)",
to which I replied at length, ending with:
"For those with a historical bent, in a paper invited by an engineering toxicology journal (“Elementary models for biological interaction”, Journal of Hazardous Materials 1985;10:449-454) I attempted to provide a connection between bioassay and epidemiologic models for interaction." Among other things this 1985 paper cites W.S. Abbott, A method of computing the effectiveness of an insecticide, J. Econ. Entomol., 18 (1925) 265--267.
Also, you never responded to my deduction of risk additivity from the assumptions of no interaction response types and of no confounding of either single or joint factor effects:
Tell us Anders, where did you find out about Abbott's paper and why did you obtain and read it? After all,at the Datamethods blog on July 4 you repeatedly dismissed my comments that mechanistic models and risk results go back to the 1920s, replying
"It therefore isn’t at all obvious to me that reading the old literature is generally the best use of time" and "I wouldn’t try to learn calculus from Newton or Leibniz’ original writings, and likewise, I wouldn’t try to learn causal inference from Robins (1986)",
to which I replied at length, ending with:
"For those with a historical bent, in a paper invited by an engineering toxicology journal (“Elementary models for biological interaction”, Journal of Hazardous Materials 1985;10:449-454) I attempted to provide a connection between bioassay and epidemiologic models for interaction." Among other things this 1985 paper cites W.S. Abbott, A method of computing the effectiveness of an insecticide, J. Econ. Entomol., 18 (1925) 265--267.
- See https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/should-one-derive-risk-difference-from-the-odds-ratio/4403/213 and the posts leading up to that one.
Also, you never responded to my deduction of risk additivity from the assumptions of no interaction response types and of no confounding of either single or joint factor effects:
https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/should-one-derive-risk-difference-from-the-odds-ratio/4403/221