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Case-Control Studies: Design, Conduct, Analysis.

Journal of the American Statistical AssociationPublished 1 September 1983
Lee Youkeles, James J. Schlesselman
Citations2,380
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score4.10
SNIP3.08

TL;DR

Case-control studies, often called 'retrospective' studies, provide a research method for investigating factors that may prevent or cause disease.

Abstract

Case-control studies, often called 'retrospective' studies, provide a research method for investigating factors that may prevent or cause disease. Basically the method involves comparison of patients (cases) with a group of controls that consists of persons who are free of the disease under study.

Keywords

Decision Sciences