Reducing population stratification bias: stratum matching is better than exposure

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 62-66

  Lee, Wen Chung ^a   Wang, Liang Yi ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bias; Case control study; Epidemiologic methods; Genetic association study; Genetic epidemiology; Matching

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EXTERNAL BIAS; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATIFICATION;

ALGORITHMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION GROUPS;

EID: 57449110597     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.02.016     Document Type: Article

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