Bayesian analysis of a matched case-control study with expert prior information on both the misclassification of exposure and the exposure-disease association

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 27, 2009, Pages 3411-3423

  Liu, Juxin ^a   Gustafson, Paul ^b   Cherry, Nicola ^c   Burstyn, Igor ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian method; Job exposure matrix; Matched case control study; Misclassification; Odds ratio; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BAYES THEOREM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; JOB EXPOSURE MATRIX; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PROBABILITY; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALLERGENS; ASTHMA; BAYES THEOREM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 70350223200     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3694     Document Type: Article

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