Interval estimation of the attributable risk for multiple exposure levels in case-control studies with confounders

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 2443-2457

  Lui, Kung Jong ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attributable risk; Average length; Case control studies; Confounders; Coverage probability; Interval estimator

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SMOKING HABIT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0041633647     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1529     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Levin ML. The occurrence of lung cancer in man. Acta Unio Internationalis Contra Cancrum 1953; 9:531-541.
2. Miettinen OS. Proportion of disease caused or prevented by a given exposure, trait or intervention. American Journal of Epidemiology 1974; 99:325-332.
3. Walter SD. The estimation and interpretation of attributable risk in health research. Biometrics 1976; 32: 829-849.
4. Leung HM, Kupper LL. Comparisons of confidence intervals for attributable risk. Biometrics 1981; 37:293-302.
5. Whittemore AS. Statistical methods for estimating attributable risk from retrospective data. Statistics in Medicine 1982; 1:229-243.
6. Whittemore AS. Estimating attributable risk from case-control studies. American Journal of Epidemiology 1983; 117:76-85.
7. Kuritz SJ, Landis JR. Attributable risk ratio estimation from matched-pairs case-control data. American Journal of Epidemiology 1987; 125:324-328.
8. Kuritz SJ, Landis JR. Attributable risk estimation from matched case-control data. Biometrics 1988; 44:355-367.
9. Kuritz SJ, Landis JR. Summary attributable risk estimation from unmatched case-control data. Statistics in Medicine 1988; 7:507-517.
10. Lui K-J. Interval estimation of the attributable risk in case-control studies with matched pairs. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2001; 55:885-890.
11. Denman DW III, Schlesselmann JJ. Interval estimation of the attributable risk for multiple exposure levels in case-control studies. Biometrics 1983; 39:185-192.
12. Coughlin SS, Benichou J, Weed DL. Attributable risk estimation in case control studies. Epidemiologic Reviews 1994; 16:51-64.
13. Bruzzi P, Green SB, Byar DP, Brinton LA, Schairer C. Estimating the population attributable risk for multiple risk factors using case-control data. American Journal of Epidemiology 1985; 122:904-914.
14. Benichou J, Gail M. Variance calculations and confidence intervals for estimates of the attributable risk based on logistic models. Biometrics 1990; 46:991-1003.
15. Drescher K, Schill W. Attributable risk estimation from case-control data via logistic regression. Biometrics 1991; 47:1247-1256.
16. Greenland S, Drescher K. Maximum likelihood estimation of the attributable fraction from logistic models. Biometrics 1993; 49:865-872.
17. Benichou J. Methods of adjustment for estimating the attributable risk in case-control studies: a review. Statistics in Medicine 1991; 10:1753-1773.
18. Benichou J. Attributable risk. In Encyclopedia of Epidemiologic Methods, Gail MH, Benichou. J (eds). Wiley: Chichester, 2000; 50-63.
19. Benichou J. A review of adjusted estimators of attributable risk. Statistical Methods in Medical Research 2001; 10:195-216.
20. Gefeller O. An annotated bibliography on the attributable risk. Biometrical Journal 1992; 34:1007-1012.
21. Fleiss JL. Inference about population attributable risk from cross-sectional studies. American Journal of Epidemiology 1979; 110:103-104.
22. Fleiss JL. Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions. 2nd edn. Wiley: New York, 1981.
23. Gefeller O, Windeler J. Risk factors for cervical cancer: comments on attributable risk calculations and the evaluation of screening in case-control studies. International Journal of Epidemiology 1991; 20:1140-1141.
24. Lui K-J. Notes on interval estimation of the attributable risk in cross-sectional sampling. Statistics in Medicine 2001; 20:1797-1809.
25. Lui K-J. Confidence intervals of the attributable risk under cross-sectional sampling with confounders. Biometrical Journal 2001; 43:767-779.
26. Kooperberg C, Petitti DB. Using logistic regression to estimate the adjusted attributable risk of low birthweight in an unmatched case-control study. Epidemiology 1991; 2:363-366.
27. Taylor JW. Simple estimation of population attributable risk from case-control studies. American Journal of Epidemiology 1977; 106(4):260.
28. Shapiro S, Slone D, Rosenberg L, Kaufman DW, Stolley PD, Miettinen OS. Oral contraceptive use in relation to myocardial infarction. Lancet 1979; 1:743-747.
29. Casella G, Berger RL. Statistical Inference. Duxbury Press: Belmont, California, 1990.
30. Agresti A. Categorical Data Analysis. Wiley: New York, 1990.
31. Lui K-J, Kelly C. A note on interval estimation of kappa in a series of 2 × 2 tables. Statistics in Medicine 1999; 18:2041-2049.
32. Lui K-J. Confidence intervals for differences in correlated binary proportions. Statistics in Medicine 1998; 17:2017-2021.
33. Lui K-J, Kelly C. A revisit on tests on homogeneity of the risk difference. Biometrics 2000; 56:309-315.
34. SAS Institute Inc. SAS Language, Reference Version 6. 1st edn. SAS Institute Inc.: Cary, North Carolina, 1990.
35. Kleinbaum DG, Kupper LL, Morgenstern H. Epidemiologic Research: Principles and Quantitative Methods. Lifetime Learning: Belmont, California, 1982.
36. Greenland S. Variance estimators for attributable fraction estimates consistent in both large strata and sparse data. Statistics in Medicine 1987; 6:701-708.
37. Gefeller O. Comparison of adjusted attributable risk estimators. Statistics in Medicine 1992; 11:2083-2091.