Estimating risk and rate levels, ratios and differences in case-control studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1409-1427

  King, Gary ^a   Zeng, Langche ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Data interpretation; Hazard rate; Logistic models; Odds ratio; Rate difference; Rate ratio; Relative risk; Risk difference; Risk ratio; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RISK; SMOKING; STATISTICS;

EID: 0037198577     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1032     Document Type: Article

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