Analysis of case-control data with interacting misclassified covariates

Abstract Case-control studies are important and useful methods for studying health outcomes and many methods have been developed for analyzing case-control data. Those methods, however, are vulnerable to mismeasurement of variables; biased results are often produced if such a feature is ignored. In...

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Main Authors: Grace Y. Yi, Wenqing He
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-10-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40488-017-0069-0
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Summary:Abstract Case-control studies are important and useful methods for studying health outcomes and many methods have been developed for analyzing case-control data. Those methods, however, are vulnerable to mismeasurement of variables; biased results are often produced if such a feature is ignored. In this paper, we develop an inference method for handling case-control data with interacting misclassified covariates. We use the prospective logistic regression model to feature the development of the disease. To characterize the misclassification process, we consider a practical situation where replicated measurements of error-prone covariates are available. Our work is motivated in part by a breast cancer case-control study where two binary covariates are subject to misclassification. Extensions to other settings are outlined.
ISSN:2195-5832