The Case-Control Method: Design and Applications [Hardcover]

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.