Table of Contents

Preface; Preamble; 1. Introduction to case-control studies; 2. The simplest situation; 3. Matched case-control studies; 4. A general formulation; 5. Case-control studies with other than two outcomes; 6. Special sampling designs; 7. Nested case-control studies; 8. Case-subcohort studies; 9. Misclassification and measurement error; 10. Synthesis of studies; Appendix. A theoretical diversion; References; Index.

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Covers the fundamentals of case-control studies including important recent developments, with a focus on statistical analysis.

About the Author

Ruth H. Keogh is a Lecturer in the Department of Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. D. R. Cox is one of the world's pre-eminent statisticians. His work on the proportional hazards regression model is one of the most-cited and most influential papers in modern statistics. In 2010 he won the Copley Medal of the Royal Society 'for his seminal contributions to the theory and application of statistics'. He is currently an Honorary Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.

Reviews

'This book will rapidly become the bible for researchers using case control studies. It covers essentially all aspects of such designs and their application.' David J. Hand, Imperial College London