ArticleThe Journal of infectious diseases2026
Proportional Odds or Win Probability as Methods for Assessing Ordinal Outcomes in Infectious Disease Clinical Trials.
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Infectious disease trials have long used ordinal outcomes, or ranked categorical scales, to capture the full spectrum of response to an intervention. We review 2 summary statistics for ordinal outcomes: the proportional odds ratio (pOR) and the win probability. The pOR asks: How much more likely is a treated participant to be in an improved category compared with control? The win probability asks: In a random treatment-control pair, what is the chance the treated participant fares better? We also introduce visual companions, the stacked-bar chart and bubble plot, to make ordinal trial results more accessible and interpretable.
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