Sample sizes for self-controlled case series studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 2618-2631

  Musonda, Patrick ^a   Farrington, C Paddy ^a   Whitaker, Heather J ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Likelihood ratio; Power; Sample size; Self controlled case series

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CALCULATION; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; NULL HYPOTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POWER ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA VACCINE; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 33746176977     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2477     Document Type: Article

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