Estimating disease prevalence using relatives of case and control probands

Biometrics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 214-221

  Javaras, Kristin N ^a   Laird, Nan M ^b   Hudson, James I ^c,d   Ripley, Brian D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case control family study; Population prevalence; Proband; Propositus method

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL;

AGGREGATION LEVEL; CASE-CONTROL; CASE-CONTROL FAMILY STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COVARIATES; POPULATION PREVALENCE; PROBAND; PROPERTY; PROPOSITUS METHOD; UNBIASED ESTIMATES;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ACQUISITION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SAMPLE PREPARATION;

ALGORITHM; BIOMETRY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE;

EID: 77949750818     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01272.x     Document Type: Article

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