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Biometrika 1981 68(1):85-91; doi:10.1093/biomet/68.1.85
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Relative risk estimation under multiple matching

AYENEW EJIGOU and RICHARD MCHUGH

Department of Statistics, Addis Ababa University Ethiopia
Division of Biometry, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota Minneapolis

Under multiple matching, relative risk from a rare disease is estimated in a retrospective design. Maximum likelihood estimation is carried out using an unconditional probability model. In addition, this model is used to derive a new estimator of relative risk which is noniterative but is as efficient, asymptotically, as the maximum likelihood estimator.

Key Words: Epidemiology • Maximum likelihood estimation • Multiple matching design • Relative risk • Retrospective epidemiologic studies


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