Evaluating the performance of hypothesis testing in case-control studies with exposure misclassification, using frequentist and Bayesian techniques

In epidemiologic studies, measurement error in the exposure variable can have large effects on the power of hypothesis testing for detecting the impact of exposure in the development of a disease. As it distorts the structure of data, more uncertainty is associated with the inferential procedure inv...

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Main Author: Karim, Mohammad Ehsanul
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/22472