The unreasonable effectiveness of a biased logistic regression procedure in the analysis of pair-matched case-control studies

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 371-385

  Levin, B ^a   Paik, Myunghee Cho ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

62J12; 62J15; Case control study; Logistic regression; Matched pairs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035402149     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(00)00217-2     Document Type: Article

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