Simple optimal weighting of cases and controls in case-control studies

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Rose, Sherri ^a   Van Der Laan, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control sampling; Causal effect; Counterfactual; Double robust estimation; Estimating function; Inverse probability of treatment weighting; Locally efficient estimation; Marginal structural models; Targeted maximum likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; BIOSTATISTICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOSTATISTICS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 55549089659     PISSN: 15574679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1115     Document Type: Article

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