Ignoring the matching variables in cohort studies - When is it valid and why?

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 27, 2013, Pages 4696-4708

  Sjölander, Arvid ^a   Greenland, Sander ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Cohort studies; Confounding; Matching; Stratification

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NULL HYPOTHESIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE; BODY MASS; CONFOUNDING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; MATCHING; MORTALITY; STATISTICAL BIAS; STRATIFICATION; TWINS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING; MATCHING; STRATIFICATION;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; TWINS;

EID: 84901549990     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5879     Document Type: Article

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