Excess false positive rate caused by population stratification and disease rate heterogeneity in case-control association studies

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1767-1781

  Li, Zhaohai ^a,b   Zhang, Hong ^a,c   Zheng, Gang ^d   Gastwirth, Joseph L ^a,b   Gail, Mitchell H ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d Office of Biostatistics Research   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; STATISTICAL TESTS;

BIAS AND VARIANCES; CASE CONTROLS; ESTIMATED VARIANCES; EXPLICIT EXPRESSIONS; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; POPULATION STRATIFICATIONS; SIMULATION STUDIES; TYPE I ERROR RATES; TYPE-I ERRORS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 60349098054     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.02.021     Document Type: Article

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