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SUBMITTER: Li Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4412035 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The international journal of biostatistics 20140101 2
Sibling studies have become increasingly popular because they provide better control over confounding by unmeasured family-level risk factors than can be obtained in standard cohort studies. However, little attention has been devoted to the development of efficient design strategies for sibling studies in terms of optimizing power. We here address this issue in commonly encountered types of sibling studies, allowing for continuous and binary outcomes and varying numbers of exposed and unexposed ...[more]