The Case-Control Method

ISBN 10: 0195187113 / ISBN 13: 9780195187113

Published by Oxford University Press Inc, US, 2009

About this Item

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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Case-Control Method
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, US
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195187113
• ISBN 13: 9780195187113
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 544 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Haroutune Armenian is a Professor of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.