Accommodation of additional non-randomly sampled cases in a study of Helicobacter pylori infection in families.

Autor: Kivi, Mårten, Johansson, Anna L. V., Salim, Agus, Tindberg, Ylva, Reilly, Marie
Zdroj: Statistics in Medicine; Dec2005, Vol. 24 Issue 24, p4045-4054, 10p
Abstrakt: Epidemiological studies with two-stage designs typically gather information about some covariates from all study subjects in the first sampling stage, while additional data from only a subset of the subjects are collected in the second sampling stage. Appropriate analysis of two-stage studies maintains validity and can also improve precision. We describe an application of a weighted likelihood method, mean-score logistic regression, to accommodate data from a cross-sectional study of Helicobacter pylori infection in children, where the study sample was enriched with additional non-randomly sampled cases. The present work exemplifies how careful analysis of epidemiological data from complex sampling schemes can adjust for potential selection bias, improve precision and enable a more complete investigation of factors of interest. Our results highlight the importance of H. pylori infected mothers and siblings as risk factors for the infection in children in Sweden. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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