Survey research methods in evaluation and case-control studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1675-1687

  Kalton, Graham ^a   Piesse, Andrea ^a  

^a WESTAT   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex sample designs; Matching; Population based controls; Propensity scores; Sources of invalidity; Survey weights

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DRIVER LICENCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLING; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947432843     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2796     Document Type: Article

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