The investigation and correction of recall bias for an ordinal response in a case-control study

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 965-975

  Barry, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Case control study; Maximum likelihood; Recall bias; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; CONSTIPATION; HUMAN; INDIGESTION; INTERNAL BIAS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECORDING; RISK FACTOR; SIMULATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTIPATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DYSPEPSIA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33644783543     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2238     Document Type: Article

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