To Match or Not to Match in Epidemiological Studies—Same Outcome but Less Power

This study aimed to analyze the possible resemblance or difference in outcome in a case-control study of quality of life for IBS patients compared to controls free from the disease, when a matching procedure for age and sex was applied for the control group compared to when all participating subject...

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Autores principales: Faresjö, Tomas, Faresjö, Åshild
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20195449
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7010325
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description This study aimed to analyze the possible resemblance or difference in outcome in a case-control study of quality of life for IBS patients compared to controls free from the disease, when a matching procedure for age and sex was applied for the control group compared to when all participating subjects were included in the control group. The main result was that almost the same and identical results were found irrespective of whether matching or not matching was applied in this epidemiological case-control study. The matching procedure however, slightly diminished the statistical power of the results.
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spelling pubmed-28197922010-03-01 To Match or Not to Match in Epidemiological Studies—Same Outcome but Less Power Faresjö, Tomas Faresjö, Åshild Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This study aimed to analyze the possible resemblance or difference in outcome in a case-control study of quality of life for IBS patients compared to controls free from the disease, when a matching procedure for age and sex was applied for the control group compared to when all participating subjects were included in the control group. The main result was that almost the same and identical results were found irrespective of whether matching or not matching was applied in this epidemiological case-control study. The matching procedure however, slightly diminished the statistical power of the results. Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2010-01 2010-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC2819792/ /pubmed/20195449 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7010325 Text en © 2010 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819792/
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