Practical and analytical aspects of using friend controls in case-control studies: Experience from a case-control study of childhood cancer

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 402-412

  Bunin, Greta R ^a   Vardhanabhuti, Saran ^b   Lin, Agueda ^a   Anschuetz, Greta L ^c   Mitra, Nandita ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c PHILADELPHIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

advantages; bias; choice of controls; friend controls; paternal exposures; retinoblastoma; statistical methodology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNICITY; FATHER; FEMALE; FRIEND; GRADUATE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RACE; RETINOBLASTOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SIMULATION; SMOKING;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CANADA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTROL GROUPS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETINAL NEOPLASMS; RETINOBLASTOMA; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051543753     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: 13653016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2011.01210.x     Document Type: Article

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