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...of saying male sex has an OR = 2.0, saying that all else equal, males have a 5 percentage point higher rate of disease, or, given certain values of covariates, the difference in rates of disease between boys and girls is X (95% ci for difference = ...). I know there are mantzel-hanzell methods for cummarizing contingency tables, but if I had several covariates I wanted to control for, this approach quickly loses its appeal. A regression framework which allowed for inference on the absolute scale would be ideal (or perhaps I'm just forgetting something about logistic regression?) 2) Now suppos...