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Course Notes - Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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Case-Control Study• Retrospective• Doll-Hill study <strong>of</strong> British cancer patients (1948-1952).- Cases = lung cancer- Controls = other forms <strong>of</strong> cancer, matched to the cases by age<strong>and</strong> sex.Cases ControlsSmokers 1350 1296Nonsmokers 7 61Total 1357 1357• Nonsmokers 7/1357 = 0.51% <strong>of</strong> the male cases but 61/1357 =4.5% <strong>of</strong> the male controls• Implicates smoking as a factorTrout Cod• Case-control studies commonly associated with epidemiology• Can be applied usefully in other settings• Habitat selection <strong>of</strong> trout cod on the Murray River- Cases = locations where radio-tagged trout cod were found- Controls = r<strong>and</strong>omly selected locations28

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