Journal article
THE FEASIBILITY OF MATCHING AND QUOTA SAMPLING IN EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES
Abstract
Matching is often used to eliminate the effects of potential confounders. The practical execution of a matched design will usually involve additional sampling effort to find appropriate quotas of persons who satisfy the matching criteria. If this effort is substantial, it may render the matched design less attractive than using unmatched samples with covariance adjustment in the analysis. This paper presents numerical results on the sampling …
Authors
WALTER SD
Journal
American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 130, No. 2, pp. 379–389
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
August 1, 1989
DOI
10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a115344
ISSN
0002-9262