Problem: Based on 1987 murder rates in the United States, an Associated Press story reported that the probability that a newborn child has of eventually being a murder victim is 0.0263 for nonwhite males, 0.0049 for white males, 0.0072 for nonwhite females, and 0.0023 for white females. obtain a 95% confidence interval for the odds ratio using (a) the Woolf (i.e., Wald) interval, (b) Cornfield"s "exact" approach, (c) the profile likelihood. In each case, note the effect of the zero cell count. Summarize advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
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