Matched Case Control Studies with Random Exposure Effects
β Scribed by Sadeq R. Chowdhury; C.A. McGilchrist
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 98 KB
- Volume
- 43
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0323-3847
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
## Abstract Familyβbased association studies have gained in popularity for mapping diseaseβsusceptibility gene(s) of complex diseases. However, recruiting family controls is often more difficult than recruiting unrelated controls. The author proposes a caseβcontrol study, where the possible biases
Relative risk estimation in case-control studies is based on the premise that the control groiip represents the underlying population. Often more than one control group is collected in order to minimize the possibility of accepting a false result. I n this paper it is assumed that a case is matched