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Asymptotic distribution theory and efficiency results for case-cohort studies. (English) Zbl 0666.62108

R. L. Prentice [Biometrika 73, 1-11 (1986; Zbl 0595.62111)] proposed case-cohort designs as a means of reducing cost in large epidemiologic cohort studies. A “pseudolikelihood” procedure is developed for relative risk regression parameter estimation. This procedure involves covariate data only on subjects who develop disease and on a random subset of the entire cohort. Asymptotic distribution theory for such pseudolikelihood estimators is presented.

MSC:

62P10 Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis
62E20 Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics
62G05 Nonparametric estimation

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Zbl 0595.62111
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