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Case-control study designs are frequently used in public health and medical research to assess potential risk factors for disease. These study designs are particularly attractive to investigators researching rare diseases, as they are able to sample known cases of disease vs. following a large number of subjects and waiting for disease onset in a relatively small number of individuals.
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Rose, S., van der Laan, M.J. (2011). Independent Case-Control Studies. In: Targeted Learning. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9782-1_13
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