In epidemiological studies of an exposure-response association, often only a mismeasured exposure is taken on each individual of the population under study. If ignored, exposure measurement error can bias the estimated exposure-response association in question. A reliability study may be carried out to estimate the relation between the mismeasured and true exposure, which could then be used to adjust for measurement error in the attenuated exposure-response relationship. However, taking repeated exposure measurements may be expensive. Given a fixed total study cost, a two-stage design may be a more efficient approach for regression parameter estimation compared to the traditional single-stage design since, in the second-stage, repeated measurement is restricted to a sample of first-stage subjects. Sampling the extremes of the first-stage exposure distribution has been shown to be more efficient than random sampling.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:498813 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Batistatou, Evridiki |
| Contributors | McNamee, R. |
| Publisher | University of Manchester |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:223498 |
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