Adjusted odds ratios for case-control studies with missing confounder data in controls

Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 275-280

  Suissa, Samy ^a,b   DeB Edwardes, Michael D ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

case control study; cohort study; confounding; data analysis; epidemiologic methods; odds ratio; relative risk; retrospective studies; statistics

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; THEOPHYLLINE;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EXPOSURE; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

EID: 0030935493     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199705000-00008     Document Type: Article

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