Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods

  • 제20권6호
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  • Pages.455-466
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  • 2013
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  • 2287-7843(pISSN)
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  • 2383-4757(eISSN)
한국통계학회 (The Korean Statistical Society)
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Analysis of Nested Case-Control Study Designs: Revisiting the Inverse Probability Weighting Method

  • Kim, Ryung S. (Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
  • 투고 : 2013.07.26
  • 심사 : 2013.10.24
  • 발행 : 2013.11.30
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In nested case-control studies, the most common way to make inference under a proportional hazards model is the conditional logistic approach of Thomas (1977). Inclusion probability methods are more efficient than the conditional logistic approach of Thomas; however, the epidemiology research community has not accepted the methods as a replacement of the Thomas' method. This paper promotes the inverse probability weighting method originally proposed by Samuelsen (1997) in combination with an approximate jackknife standard error that can be easily computed using existing software. Simulation studies demonstrate that this approach yields valid type 1 errors and greater powers than the conditional logistic approach in nested case-control designs across various sample sizes and magnitudes of the hazard ratios. A generalization of the method is also made to incorporate additional matching and the stratified Cox model. The proposed method is illustrated with data from a cohort of children with Wilm's tumor to study the association between histological signatures and relapses.

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