Adaptive nested case-control
An adaptive nested case-control study embeds a case-control comparison within a defined cohort and incorporates pre-specified interim decision rules that allow modifications — such as control-to-case ratio adjustment or biomarker sub-sampling revision — based on accumulating data, without compromising the study's validity or inflating type I error. The design combines the efficiency of the nested case-control framework with the flexibility of adaptive methodology to optimise resource use when exposure assessment is costly.
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- Thomas, D. C. (1977). Addendum to: Methods of cohort analysis: Appraisal by application to asbestos mining. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 140(4), 469–491. · DOI 10.2307/2345280
- Bauer, P., & Kohne, K. (1994). Evaluation of experiments with adaptive interim analyses. Biometrics, 50(4), 1029–1041. · DOI 10.2307/2533441
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