A relative power table for nested matched case-control studies

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-69

  Pang, D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Division of Psychiatry   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nested case control studies; Number of controls per case; Relative power

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0032940813     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.56.1.67     Document Type: Article

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