empiric risk


risk

 [risk] a danger or hazard; the probability of suffering harm.attributable risk the amount or proportion of incidence of disease or death (or risk of disease or death) in individuals exposed to a specific risk factor that can be attributed to exposure to that factor; the difference in the risk for unexposed versus exposed individuals. empiric risk the probability that a trait will occur or recur in a family based solely on experience rather than on knowledge of the causative mechanism. See also risk" >genetic risk.genetic risk the probability that a trait will occur or recur in a family, based on knowledge of its genetic pattern of transmission. See also risk" >empiric risk.relative risk for a disease, death, or other outcome, the ratio of the incidence rate among individuals with a given risk factor to the incidence rate among those without it.

em·pir·ic risk

risk that is based on empiric evidence alone, without any appeal to formal theory or surmise.

em·pir·ic risk

(em-pir'ik risk) Risk that is based on empiric evidence alone, without any appeal to formal theory or surmise.