1) A book chapter on case-control studies I wrote for the recent Springer Handbook of Epidemiology. This falls in the category "could benefit from in general." [
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2) An article by myself and a former student (Chatterjee) from Applied Statistics, 1999. This is the most accessible paper (other than the one submitted above) for a general epidemiology audience on the work I have been doing in this area. Methods have progressed substantially since this was written. [
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3) A more technical paper by Borgan and colleagues from Lifetime Data Analysis (2000) [
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Select a nearby CRAN mirrow site (these are listed by country) |
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From the CRAN site select "Packages" under "Software" |
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Click on "S" and then on "survey" |
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Download the Reference manual "survey.pdf" and the vignette "Two-phase designs in epidemiology". It is best to install the package itself from within R following instructions. |
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Another relevant package available from the CRAN site is the NestedCohort package developed by Hormuzd Katki. This also contains a Reference Manual and a tutorial. I hope to be able to compare and contrast results obtained using both packages during my presentation. |
Those who are interested can download the entire R package from the CRAN site (it is a free program) and could in principal have all this installed on their laptops for discussion during the session.
