Ascertainment bias in rate ratio estimation from case-sibling control studies of variable age-at-onset diseases

Biometrics

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1129-1136

  Langholz, Bryan ^a   Ziogas, Argyrios ^b   Thomas, Duncan C ^a   Faucett, Cheryl ^c   Huberman, Mark ^a   Goldstein, Larry ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Censoring; Diabetes; Epidemiology; Family studies; Genetics; Partial likelihood; Proband elimination

Indexed keywords

CASE-CONTROL STUDY; CENSORING; CONTROL STUDIES; FAMILY STUDY; FINNISH; GENETIC; PARTIAL LIKELIHOODS; PROBAND ELIMINATION; RATE RATIOS; RATIO ESTIMATIONS;

DISEASE CONTROL;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032714535     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.1999.01129.x     Document Type: Article

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