Titre : | Case-control studies : basic concepts. (2012) |
Auteurs : | VANDENBROUCKE (Jan-P) : NLD. Department of Clinical Epidemiology. Leiden University Medical Center. Leiden. ; PEARCE (Neil) : GBR. Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health. Departments of Medical Statistics and Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. London. |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | International journal of epidemiology (vol. 41, n° 5, 2012) |
Pagination : | 1480-1489 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Enquête cas témoin ; Epidémiologie ; Concept ; Education ; Enseignement ; Méthodologie ; Méthode ; Population |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS Bq9nkR0x. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. 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. |