Avoiding Bias in Case and Control Selection

The Case-Control Method: Design and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Armenian, Haroutune K ^a,b,c  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA   (Armenia)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Dead cases; Exclusion criteria; Matching; Misclassification; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054985666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195187113.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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