Self-controlled case series analyses: Small-sample performance

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1942-1957

  Musonda, Patrick ^a   Hocine, Mounia N ^a   Whitaker, Heather J ^a   Farrington, C Paddy ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymptotic bias; Asymptotic variance; Bootstrap; Randomization test; Self controlled case series method; Simulation; Small sample performance

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RISK ANALYSIS;

ASYMPTOTIC BIAS; ASYMPTOTIC VARIANCE; RANDOMIZATION TESTS; SELF-CONTROLLED CASE SERIES METHOD; SMALL-SAMPLE PERFORMANCE;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 35748948398     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.06.016     Document Type: Article

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