SAMPLE-SIZE DETERMINATION FOR PAIR-MATCHED CASE CONTROL STUDIES WHERE THE GOAL IS INTERVAL ESTIMATION OF THE ODDS RATIO

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作者
SATTEN, GA
KUPPER, LL
机构
[1] Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
关键词
Case-control study; Confidence; interval; Matched pairs; Odds ratio; Sample size;
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10.1016/0895-4356(90)90056-U
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R19 [保健组织与事业(卫生事业管理)];
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摘要
Sample sizes are calculated for case-control studies where 1:1 matching has been employed, and where the goal is the interval estimation of the odds ratio. The optimal sample size is defined to be the smallest value for which a 100(1 - α)% confidence interval for the log odds ratio will not exceed a specified width 2δ with specified probability (1 - γ). This approach is similar in spirit to the power-based approach for sample size determination when significance testing is the goal. Tables of sample sizes are presented for various choices of parameters. We also find considerable disagreement with a published method based on expected numbers of discordant pairs. © 1990.
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