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Drs. Philip Kass and Sander Greenland wish to point out an error in the second example in the paper by Greenland and Thomas, “On the need for the rare disease assumption in case studies” ( Am J Epidemiol 1982; 116:547–53). In this example, B 0 is given as 38.51 but should be 44.95, with the result t...

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Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 1990
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Online Access:http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/131/6/1102-b
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Summary:Drs. Philip Kass and Sander Greenland wish to point out an error in the second example in the paper by Greenland and Thomas, “On the need for the rare disease assumption in case studies” ( Am J Epidemiol 1982; 116:547–53). In this example, B 0 is given as 38.51 but should be 44.95, with the result that the bias in OR 0 in this example is negligible. This correction does not alter the remainder of the paper