Case-Control Method: Design and Applications

Over the past fifty years, the case-control method, and to a lesser extent its case-based variants, have become the most important tools for the investigator of health problems. The case control method is the study of persons with the disease and a suitable control group of persons who do not have the disease. The book helps readers address a number of general and specific questions dealing with the case-control and other case-based methods, including questions of how to design and implement a case-control study that minimizes biases, how to analyze the data to appropriately deal with confounding variables and help identify reactions, and how to interpret data and present the results from a case-control study.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195187113
• ISBN13: 9780195187113
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"