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Record Nr.

UNINA9910872399003321

Autore

Farrington Paddy

Titolo

Self-controlled case series studies : a modelling guide with R / / by Paddy Farrington, Heather Whitaker, Yonas Ghebremichael Weldeselassie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, Florida : , : CRC Press, , 2018

ISBN

0-429-95751-3

0-429-95752-1

0-429-49131-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 pages)

Disciplina

610.72/4

Soggetti

Medicine - Research - Methodology

Clinical trials - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1 Introduction / Paddy Farrington Heather Whitaker Yonas Ghebremichael Weldeselassie -- chapter 2 Epidemiological overview / Paddy Farrington Heather Whitaker Yonas Ghebremichael Weldeselassie -- chapter 3 The SCCS likelihood / Paddy Farrington Heather Whitaker Yonas Ghebremichael Weldeselassie -- chapter 4 The standard SCCS model / Paddy Farrington Heather Whitaker Yonas Ghebremichael Weldeselassie -- chapter 5 Checking model assumptions / Paddy Farrington Heather Whitaker Yonas Ghebremichael Weldeselassie -- chapter 6 Further SCCS models / Paddy Farrington Heather Whitaker Yonas Ghebremichael Weldeselassie -- chapter 7 Extensions of the SCCS model / Paddy Farrington Heather Whitaker Yonas Ghebremichael Weldeselassie -- chapter 8 Design and presentation of SCCS studies / Paddy Farrington Heather Whitaker Yonas Ghebremichael Weldeselassie.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the self-controlled case series (SCCS) method, a statistical method for investigating associations between outcome events and time-varying exposures.