期刊
JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
卷 13, 期 4, 页码 193-202出版社
JAPAN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.2188/jea.13.193
关键词
nested case-control studies; matching; counter matching; models; statistical; atomic-bomb survivor studies
资金
- NCI NIH HHS [CA42949] Funding Source: Medline
Background: Two methods for selecting controls in nested case-control studies - matching on X and counter matching on X - are compared when interest is in interaction between a risk factor X measured in the full cohort and another risk factor Z measured only in the case-control sample. This is important because matching provides efficiency gains relative to random sampling when X is uncommon and the interaction is positive (greater than multiplicative), whereas counter matching is generally efficient compared to random sampling. Methods: Matching and counter matching were compared to each other and to random sampling of controls for dichotomous X and Z Comparison was by simulation, using as an example a published study of radiation and other risk factors for breast cancer in the Japanese atomic-bomb survivors, and by asymptotic relative efficiency calculations for a wide range of parameters specifying the prevalence of X and Z as well as the levels of correlation and interaction between them. Focus was on analyses utilizing general models for the joint risk of X and Z Results: Counter-matching performed better than matching or random sampling in terms of efficiency for inference about interaction in the case of a rare risk factor X and uncorrelated risk factor Z Further, more general, efficiency calculations demonstrated that counter-matching is generally efficient relative to matched case-control designs for studying interaction. Conclusions: Because counter-matched designs may be analyzed using standard statistical methods and allow investigation of confounding of the effect of X, whereas matched designs require a non-standard approach when fitting general risk models and do not allow investigating the adjusted risk of X, it is concluded that counter-matching on X can be a superior alternative to matching on X in nested case-control studies of interaction when X is known at the time of case-control sampling.
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