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Matching in Epidemiology as a Paradigm for Twin Research on the Etiology of Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Colin White
Colin White*
Affiliation:
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
*
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Abstract

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This article is a review of the technique of matching as it applies to epidemiological investgations of the etiology of disease. It is written for researchers who wish to use twins as the matched pairs in studies of this type.

Keywords

BiometryStatisticsTwinsEpidemiologic methodsFollow-up studiesSociometric technics
Type
Review Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 77 - 86
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1981

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