Article
A new method for estimating the risk ratio in studies using case-parental control design.
American journal of epidemiology - 1 Nov 1998
Sun F, Flanders W D, Yang Q, Khoury M J
Abstract excerpt
The authors describe a new simple noniterative, yet efficient method to estimate the risk ratio in studies using case-parental control design. The new method is compared with two other noniterative methods, Khoury's method and Flanders and Khoury's method, and with a maximum likelihood-based meth...
Topics
- Alleles
- Case-Control Studies
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Diseases, Inborn
- Genomic Imprinting
- Genotype
- Humans
- Likelihood Functions
- Male
- Models, Genetic
- Odds Ratio
- Random Allocation
