期刊
JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH
卷 79, 期 10, 页码 1778-1781出版社
AMER ASSOC DENTAL RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1177/00220345000790100801
关键词
statistical methods; confounding; correlated data; study design
资金
- NIDCR NIH HHS [DE08555, DE09743] Funding Source: Medline
The evaluation of risk factors in dental research frequently uses observations at multiple sites in the same patient. For this reason, statistical methods that accommodate correlated data are generally used to assess the significance of the risk factors (e.g., generalized estimating equations, generalized linear mixed models). In applications of these methods, it is typically assumed (implicitly, if not explicitly) that between-subject and within-subject comparisons will produce the same estimated effect of the risk factor. When between- and within-subject comparisons conflict, the statistical methods can give biased estimates or results that are difficult to interpret. For illustration, we present two examples from periodontal disease studies in which different statistical methods give different estimates and significance levels for a risk factor. Statistical analyses in dental research should assess whether different sources of information give similar conclusions about risk factors or treatments.
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