The impact of diagnostic error on testing genetic association in case-control studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 869-882

  Zheng, Gang ^a   Tian, Xin ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control study; Diagnostic error; Power; Sample size; Sensitivity specificity; Trend test

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MODEL; HUMAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 15544374093     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1976     Document Type: Article

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