The combination of ecological and case-control data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-93

  Haneuse, Sebastien J P A ^a   Wakefield, Jonathan C ^b  

^a CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological bias; Efficiency; Outcome dependent sampling; Two phase sampling; Within area confounding

Indexed keywords

EID: 37849005685     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2007.00628.x     Document Type: Article

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