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Case-control studies: basic concepts

Author(s) -

Jan P. Vandenbroucke,

Neil Pearce

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dys147

Subject(s) - control (management) , focus (optics) , disease , incidence (geometry) , simple (philosophy) , computer science , medicine , econometrics , mathematics , artificial intelligence , pathology , epistemology , philosophy , physics , geometry , optics

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.

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