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SUBMITTER: Zhou H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4106685 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biometrics 20110301 1
The two-stage case-control design has been widely used in epidemiology studies for its cost-effectiveness and improvement of the study efficiency (White, 1982, American Journal of Epidemiology 115, 119-128; Breslow and Cain, 1988, Biometrika 75, 11-20). The evolution of modern biomedical studies has called for cost-effective designs with a continuous outcome and exposure variables. In this article, we propose a new two-stage outcome-dependent sampling (ODS) scheme with a continuous outcome varia ...[more]