Selection of Controls in Case-Control Studies: II. Types of Controls

Statistical methods in cancer research. Volume I - The analysis of case-control studies.

1980 • 4,991 citations

The Case-Crossover Design: A Method for Studying Transient Effects on the Risk of Acute Events

1991 • 2,183 citations

Epidemiology: Principles and Methods

1970 • 1,500 citations

Sampling Methods for Random Digit Dialing

1978 • 1,398 citations

Methods in Observational Epidemiology

1986 • 1,345 citations

Selection of Controls in Case-Control Studies

1992 • 972 citations

Theoretical Epidemiology: Principles of Occurrence Research in Medicine

1985 • 490 citations

THE EFFECT OF MISCLASSIFICATION IN THE PRESENCE OF COVARIATES

1980 • 480 citations

Coffee and Cancer of the Pancreas

1981 • 452 citations

Selection of Controls in Case-Control Studies: III. Design Options

1992 • 440 citations

Alternative Analytic Methods for Case-Control Studies of Estrogens and Endometrial Cancer

1978 • 260 citations

AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE PROPORTIONATE MORTALITY RATIO

1981 • 232 citations

The “case-control” study: Valid selection of subjects

1985 • 209 citations

PROXY RESPONDENTS IN EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH

1990 • 208 citations

THE EFFECTS OF MEASUREMENT ERRORS ON RELATWE RISK REGRESSIONS

1990 • 206 citations

ADEQUACY OF SURVEY DATA COLLECTED FROM SUBSTITUTE RESPONDENTS

1977 • 172 citations

Smoking and Cancer of the Lower Urinary Tract

1971 • 159 citations

Prenatal and perinatal risk factors for testicular cancer.

1986 • 145 citations

AN ASSESSMENT OF THE VALIDITY OF QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES PROVIDED BY A SURVIVING SPOUSE

1986 • 142 citations

RELIABILITY OF SURROGATE INFORMATION ON CIGARETTE SMOKING BY TYPE OF INFORMANT

1987 • 140 citations

SPOUSE-SUBJECT INTERVIEWS AND THE RELIABILITY OF DIET STUDIES

1980 • 126 citations

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES IN THE EVALUATION OF DRUG-INDUCED ILLNESS

1978 • 125 citations

Analysis of case‐control data with covariate measurement error: Application to diet and colon cancer

1989 • 109 citations

CONTROL SELECTION USING RANDOM DIGIT DIALING FOR CASES OF CHILDHOOD CANCER1

1984 • 101 citations

ESTIMATING ATTRIBUTABLE RISK FROM CASE-CONTROL STUDIES1

1983 • 95 citations

Cancer Case-Control Studies with Other Cancers as Controls

1988 • 86 citations

Medicare's common denominator: the covered population.

1980 • 80 citations

TWO ONE-STEP METHODS FOR HOUSEHOLD SCREENING AND INTERVIEWING USING RANDOM DIGIT DIALING1

1988 • 78 citations

USE OF CANCER CONTROLS IN CASE-CONTROL CANCER STUDIES1

1987 • 73 citations

Head trauma and seizures as risk factors of glioblastoma

1984 • 73 citations

Parental Occupations and Cancer in Children

1982 • 73 citations

ANALYSIS OF CASE-CONTROL DATA DERIVED IN PART FROM PROXY RESPONDENTS

1988 • 69 citations

SHOULD DEAD CASES BE MATCHED TO DEAD CONTROLS?

1982 • 69 citations

Hodgkin's Disease, Tonsillectomy and Family Size

1975 • 66 citations

The Validity of Data from Next-of-kin in Studies of Mortality among Migrants

1975 • 66 citations

The case control study: The problem and the prospect

1979 • 62 citations

PROBLEMS IN THE USE OF DEAD CONTROLS IN CASE-CONTROL STUDIES

1985 • 60 citations

Comparison of Next-of-Kin with Self-Respondents Regarding Questions on Cigarette, Coffee, and Alcohol Consumption

1990 • 57 citations

Referral bias in multiple sclerosis research

1988 • 51 citations

Reproductive history and risk of breast cancer.A case-control study in an unselected swedish populations

1978 • 49 citations

Bias associated with differential hospitalization rates in incident case-control studies

1989 • 47 citations

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES USING OTHER DISEASES AS CONTROLS: PROBLEMS OF EXCLUDING EXPOSURE-RELATED DISEASES

1988 • 41 citations

The Validity of CaseʼControl Studies with Nonrandom Selection of Controls

1990 • 38 citations

POSSIBILITY OF SELECTION BIAS IN MATCHED CASE-CONTROL STUDIES USING FRIEND CONTROLS1

1986 • 37 citations

“ALTERNATIVE” CONTROLS IN A CASE-CONTROL STUDY OF ENDOMETRIAL CANCER AND EXOGENOUS ESTROGEN

1980 • 36 citations

Effects of cluster sampling on epidemiologic analysis in population-based case-control studies.

1989 • 31 citations

THE EFFICACY OF RANDOM DIGIT DIALING IN SELECTING MATCHED CONTROLS FOR A CASE-CONTROL STUDY OF PEDIATRIC CANCER

1984 • 31 citations

PROBLEMS IN THE USE OF DEAD CONTROLS IN CASE-CONTROL STUDIES

1985 • 29 citations

On the Use of Case Series to Identify Disease Risk Factors

1984 • 28 citations

Selection Bias in Case-Control Studies Using Relatives as the Controls

1989 • 28 citations

RANDOM DIGIT DIALING FOR CONTROL SELECTION

1990 • 28 citations

EXCLUDING CONTROLS: MISAPPLICATIONS IN CASE-CONTROL STUDIES1

1984 • 23 citations

The Prevalence of Coffee Drinking Among Hospitalized and Population-Based Control Groups

1983 • 21 citations

CONTROL SELECTION WITH INCOMPLETE CASE ASCERTAINMENT

1988 • 20 citations

TELEPHONE HOUSEHOLD SCREENING AND INTERVIEWING

1983 • 19 citations

Genetic markers and cancer epidemiology

1977 • 13 citations

Friendly control bias

1989 • 11 citations

The case-referent study--some comments on its structure, merits and limitations.

1985 • 9 citations

Problems Ascertaining Friend Controls in a Case-Control Study of Lung Cancer

1991 • 7 citations