Case-control studies: basic concepts
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- 1 October 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 41 (5), 1480-1489
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dys147
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to present in elementary mathematical and statistical terms a simple way to quickly and effectively teach and understand case–control studies, as they are commonly done in dynamic populations—without using the rare disease assumption. Our focus is on case–control studies of disease incidence (‘incident case–control studies’); we will not consider the situation of case–control studies of prevalent disease, which are published much less frequently.Keywords
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