Case-Control Studies: Design, Conduct, Analysis.

作者：Lee Youkeles, James J. Schlesselman · 发表于：Journal of the American Statistical Association · 年份：1983 · DOI：10.2307/2288156 · 被引用次数：2366 · 研究领域：Meta-analysis and systematic reviews

Case-control studies, often called 'retrospective' studies, provide a research method for investigating factors that may prevent or cause disease. Basically the method involves comparison of patients (cases) with a group of controls that consists of persons who are free of the disease under study.