The index lift in data mining has a close relationship with the association measure relative risk in epidemiological studies

Table 2 An example

Exposure	Outcome		Total
Exposure	SGA Birth	Non-SGA Birth	Total
Mixture of carbon disulphide, carbonyl sulphide, and toluene (exposure group)	7828	64,021	71,849
None, or any one or two of these three chemicals (non-exposure group)	21,851	239,550	261,401
Total	29,679	303,571	333,250

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