Directly modelling matched case-control data

✍ Scribed by J. K. Lindsey

• Book ID: 101239030
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 89 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0277-6715
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(20000115)19:1<35::aid-sim284>3.0.co;2-b

✦ Synopsis

Matching in case-control studies is a situation in which one wishes to make inferences about a parameter of interest in the presence of nuisance parameters. The usual approach is to apply a conditional likelihood. A bivariate latent class log-linear model for binomial responses is shown to yield a standard likelihood identical to the usual conditional one. This extension of the Rasch model for binary responses gives consistent estimates and a suitable likelihood function for cases matched with any "xed number of controls.