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As the URE is a risk estimate for all cancer, rather than a cancer-specific figure, the OPR for each cancer is likely an overestimate of risk for an individual cancer.
This double counting means that our methods have the tendency to overestimate w neut ( d ). This overestimation, however, is not problematic in the context of the present paper, because - as we emphasized in the results - our main conclusions are based on the large contribution of w comp ( d ) to w ( d ). A correction for the overestimation of w neut ( d ) would increase the contribution of w comp ( d ), and would therefore make our conclusions even stronger.
[ 8 9 10 11 12 ] If providers overestimate the absolute risk of CHD events prior to treatment, their estimates of the absolute benefit of therapy may also be inaccurate.
However, for the purpose of future applications, it is useful to also know whether a method tends to underestimate or overestimate the true number of clusters.
They seemed well aware that some postings were erroneous, and in fact seemed to substantially overestimate the incidence of questionable materials.