Survey inference for subpopulations.

Abstract:

:One frequently analyzes a subset of the data collected in a survey when interest focuses on individuals in a certain subpopulation of the sampled population. Although it may seem natural to eliminate from the data set all data from individuals outside the subpopulation before analysis, this procedure may yield incorrect standard errors and confidence intervals. The authors give two examples of this using data from the 1987 National Health Interview Survey and the 1986 National Mortality Followback Survey. The correct method of analysis is described, as well as a simple condition that, when satisfied, ensures that the elimination approach yields identical answers to the correct method.

journal_name

Am J Epidemiol

authors

Graubard BI,Korn EL

doi

10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a008847

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-07-01 00:00:00

pages

102-6

issue

1

eissn

0002-9262

issn

1476-6256

journal_volume

144

pub_type

杂志文章
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Health: New Considerations for Epidemiology.

    abstract::Religion and spirituality are important social determinants that drive public health practice. The field of epidemiology has played a vital role in answering long-standing questions about whether religion is causally associated with health and mortality. As epidemiologists spark new conversations (e.g., see Kawachi (A...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/aje/kwaa022

    authors: Ransome Y

    更新日期:2020-08-01 00:00:00

  • Decreased mortality among contemplative monks in The Netherlands.

    abstract::Although it is generally believed that a simple lifestyle may promote health, a recent study among Trappist and Benedictine monks in the Netherlands reported an increase in general morbidity (Am J Epidemiol 1993;138:569-73). As this increased morbidity might be the consequence of an increased life expectancy, we studi...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a117500

    authors: de Gouw HW,Westendorp RG,Kunst AE,Mackenbach JP,Vandenbroucke JP

    更新日期:1995-04-15 00:00:00

  • Perfluorinated compounds in relation to birth weight in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study.

    abstract::Perfluorooctane sulfonate and perfluorooctanoic acid are perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) widely distributed in the environment. Previous studies of PFCs and birth weight are equivocal. The authors examined this association in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), using data from 901 women enrolled from 2...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/aje/kwr459

    authors: Whitworth KW,Haug LS,Baird DD,Becher G,Hoppin JA,Skjaerven R,Thomsen C,Eggesbo M,Travlos G,Wilson R,Cupul-Uicab LA,Brantsaeter AL,Longnecker MP

    更新日期:2012-06-15 00:00:00

  • Seasonal relationship of sudden infant death syndrome and environmental pollutants.

    abstract::Evidence that chronic hypoxia precedes death from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is mounting. Prolonged exposure to moderate levels of pollutants could be a contributing factor to hypoxia. Levels of carbon monoxide (CO), sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and hydrocarbons (HC) are highest in the winter...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a113141

    authors: Hoppenbrouwers T,Calub M,Arakawa K,Hodgman JE

    更新日期:1981-06-01 00:00:00

  • Arsenic exposure, smoking, and lung cancer in smelter workers--a case-control study.

    abstract::A cohort of 3,916 Swedish copper smelter workers employed for at least 3 months between 1928 and 1967 was followed up through 1981. Arsenic exposure was estimated for different time periods at each workplace within the smelter. Detailed job records were linked to the exposure matrix, thus forming individual cumulative...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116128

    authors: Järup L,Pershagen G

    更新日期:1991-09-15 00:00:00

  • Recovering true risks when multilevel exposure and covariables are both misclassified.

    abstract::The authors extend previous results on nondifferential exposure misclassification to the situation in which multilevel exposure and covariables are both misclassified. They show that if misclassification is nondifferential and the predictive value matrices are independent of other predictor variables it is possible to...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a010094

    authors: Weinkam JJ,Rosenbaum WL,Sterling TD

    更新日期:1999-10-15 00:00:00

  • Gallstones, cholecystectomy, and risk of digestive system cancers.

    abstract::Gallstones and cholecystectomy may be related to digestive system cancer through inflammation, altered bile flux, and changes in metabolic hormone levels. Although gallstones are recognized causes of gallbladder cancer, associations with other cancers of the digestive system are poorly established. We used the Surveil...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/aje/kwt322

    authors: Nogueira L,Freedman ND,Engels EA,Warren JL,Castro F,Koshiol J

    更新日期:2014-03-15 00:00:00

  • Medicaid policy and pregnancy outcomes: Toward a reproductive autonomy framework.

    abstract::State Medicaid programs collectively cover more than 70 million people, and are the largest single payer for pregnancy and delivery in the United States. In this issue, Margerison et al. (Am J Epidemiol. XXXX;XXX(XX):XXXX-XXXX) investigate the extent to which Medicaid expansions to non-pregnant low-income adults under...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/aje/kwaa290

    authors: Jarlenski M

    更新日期:2021-01-11 00:00:00

  • Gestational exposure to rubella vaccinees: a population surveillance study.

    abstract::Over a two-year period an attempt was made to identify instances of transmission of rubella vaccine virus from rubella vaccinees to pregnant women in Nashville-Davidson County, Tennessee. Approximately 24,000 children were immunized in a mass campaign at the outset of the study. Several prospective surveillance method...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a112089

    authors: Fleet WF,Vaughn W,Lefkowitz LB Jr,Schaffner W,Federspiel CF

    更新日期:1975-03-01 00:00:00

  • Epidemiologic risk factors associated with canine systemic mycoses.

    abstract::A prevalence study was designed to evaluate host and seasonal risk factors associated with three systemic mycoses in dogs: blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis, and histoplasmosis. Histoplasmosis was the most commonly diagnosed of the three diseases. All three of the mycoses occurred more frequently in male than female d...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a113077

    authors: Selby LA,Becker SV,Hayes HW Jr

    更新日期:1981-02-01 00:00:00

  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and parkinsonism-dementia on Guam, 1945-1972. II. Familial and genetic studies.

    abstract::The extraordinarily high rate of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and parkinsonism-dementia (PD) in the Chamorro linguistic group on Guam suggested a genetic etiology for these diseases. Results of three studies are described. Two involved comparisons of the rates of disease in relatives and spouses of index patien...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a112098

    authors: Reed DM,Torres JM,Brody JA

    更新日期:1975-04-01 00:00:00

  • Weight cycling and mortality in a large prospective US study.

    abstract::Weight cycling has been associated with an increased risk of death in some studies, but few studies differentiated weight cycling initiated by intentional weight loss from that initiated by illness. The association of weight cycling with death was examined among 55,983 men and 66,655 women in the Cancer Prevention Stu...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/aje/kwr378

    authors: Stevens VL,Jacobs EJ,Sun J,Patel AV,McCullough ML,Teras LR,Gapstur SM

    更新日期:2012-04-15 00:00:00

  • Psychosocial processes and cancer incidence among Japanese men in Hawaii.

    abstract::As part of the Honolulu Heart Program studies, 4,581 men of Japanese ancestry living in Hawaii completed a psychosocial questionnaire in 1971. By 1980, 280 new cancer cases had been recorded. Among 12 items related to stressful life situations, there were no consistent associations with total or site-specific cancer i...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a114027

    authors: Joffres M,Reed DM,Nomura AM

    更新日期:1985-04-01 00:00:00

  • The "Dry-Run" Analysis: A Method for Evaluating Risk Scores for Confounding Control.

    abstract::A propensity score (PS) model's ability to control confounding can be assessed by evaluating covariate balance across exposure groups after PS adjustment. The optimal strategy for evaluating a disease risk score (DRS) model's ability to control confounding is less clear. DRS models cannot be evaluated through balance ...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/aje/kwx032

    authors: Wyss R,Hansen BB,Ellis AR,Gagne JJ,Desai RJ,Glynn RJ,Stürmer T

    更新日期:2017-05-01 00:00:00

  • Hume, Mill, Hill, and the sui generis epidemiologic approach to causal inference.

    abstract::The epidemiologic approach to causal inference (i.e., Hill's viewpoints) consists of evaluating potential causes from the following 2, noncumulative angles: 1) established results from comparative, observational, or experimental epidemiologic studies; and 2) reviews of nonepidemiologic evidence. It does not involve st...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/aje/kwt223

    authors: Morabia A

    更新日期:2013-11-15 00:00:00

  • Relation of parental birth weights to infant birth weight among African Americans and whites in Illinois: a transgenerational study.

    abstract::The authors used a transgenerational data set of Illinois vital records to ascertain the relation between parental birth weights and infant birth weight. The infant generation consisted of all African Americans and whites born in Illinois during 1989-1991. The parent generation included the mothers and fathers who wer...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009197

    authors: Coutinho R,David RJ,Collins JW Jr

    更新日期:1997-11-15 00:00:00

  • Blood pressure and risk of death from external causes among men screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial.

    abstract::A few epidemiologic studies have shown an increased risk of death from external causes among men with hypertension. Previous studies were limited by small numbers of events, however, and none assessed the association of blood pressure with specific types of "accidental" death. The authors examined data obtained from b...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究

    doi:10.1093/aje/kwk014

    authors: Terry PD,Abramson JL,Neaton JD,MRFIT Research Group.

    更新日期:2007-02-01 00:00:00

  • Under- and overreporting of energy intake using urinary cations as biomarkers: relation to body mass index.

    abstract::Under- and overreporting of energy intake in relation to body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) were examined by using 24-hour urinary sodium and potassium as biomarkers. The data were obtained from 2,124 men and 1,998 women aged 25-74 years who participated in the 1981-1984 Belgian Interuniversity Research on Nutrition and Hea...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/aje/152.5.453

    authors: Zhang J,Temme EH,Sasaki S,Kesteloot H

    更新日期:2000-09-01 00:00:00

  • Risk indicators for falls in institutionalized frail elderly.

    abstract::The aim of this study was to identify individual predisposing risk indicators for falls in a sample of institutionalized frail elderly in southern Germany. The design was a prospective observational study with a 1-year follow-up (October 1998-September 1999). The study population included 472 long-term-care residents ...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/aje/kwg203

    authors: Kron M,Loy S,Sturm E,Nikolaus T,Becker C

    更新日期:2003-10-01 00:00:00

  • Alcohol intake and sickness absence: a curvilinear relation.

    abstract::Little is known about the U-shaped relation between alcohol intake and health beyond findings related to cardiovascular disease. Medically certified sickness absence is a health indicator in which coronary heart disease is only a minor factor. To investigate the relation between alcohol intake and sickness absence, re...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/aje/kwf138

    authors: Vahtera J,Poikolainen K,Kivimäki M,Ala-Mursula L,Pentti J

    更新日期:2002-11-15 00:00:00

  • Genetic variance of weight and length in infant twins.

    abstract::A population-based cohort of 166 twin pairs (67 monozygotic and 99 dizygotic) born at the Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami Medical Center, from July 1, 1976 to December 31, 1980 was identified. Body weight and length were measured at 14 days and at one, three, six, nine, and 12 months of age. Statisticall...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a114730

    authors: Levine RS,Hennekens CH,Jesse MJ

    更新日期:1987-11-01 00:00:00

  • Cohort analysis of malignant melanoma in five countries.

    abstract::Vital statistics data on mortality from malignant melanoma from five countries are simultaneously fit by the method of cohort analysis. After the effects of geographic and temporal trends are removed, the proportion of deaths occurring in the younger age groups is found to be higher in females than in males. Relative ...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a113726

    authors: Venzon DJ,Moolgavkar SH

    更新日期:1984-01-01 00:00:00

  • Using intake biomarkers to evaluate the extent of dietary misreporting in a large sample of adults: the OPEN study.

    abstract::This paper describes the Observing Protein and Energy Nutrition (OPEN) Study, conducted from September 1999 to March 2000. The purpose of the study was to assess dietary measurement error using two self-reported dietary instruments-the food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) and the 24-hour dietary recall (24HR)-and unbias...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/aje/kwg092

    authors: Subar AF,Kipnis V,Troiano RP,Midthune D,Schoeller DA,Bingham S,Sharbaugh CO,Trabulsi J,Runswick S,Ballard-Barbash R,Sunshine J,Schatzkin A

    更新日期:2003-07-01 00:00:00

  • Body mass index categories in observational studies of weight and risk of death.

    abstract::The World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (Bethesda, Maryland) have developed standard categories of body mass index (BMI) (calculated as weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) of less than 18.5 (underweight), 18.5-24.9 (normal weight), 25.0-29.9 (overweight), and 30.0 o...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析

    doi:10.1093/aje/kwu111

    authors: Flegal KM,Kit BK,Graubard BI

    更新日期:2014-08-01 00:00:00

  • Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) risk in recent and long-standing human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected patients with similar CD4 lymphocyte counts.

    abstract::The loss of CD4 lymphocytes is known to be an important component of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) pathogenesis. It remains unclear, however, whether the importance of the CD4 lymphocyte count is such that individuals who have been infected for widely different lengths of time, but for whom the CD4 lymph...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116789

    authors: Phillips AN,Sabin CA,Elford J,Bofill M,Janossy G,Lee CA

    更新日期:1993-11-15 00:00:00

  • Plasma fluorescent oxidation products: independent predictors of coronary heart disease in men.

    abstract::Fluorescent oxidation products in plasma are stable with routine blood collection methods and reflect oxidation in food, animals, and in vitro. Whether plasma fluorescent oxidation products predict future coronary heart disease has not been established. Among US men without cardiovascular disease who provided blood sp...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/aje/kwm120

    authors: Wu T,Rifai N,Willett WC,Rimm EB

    更新日期:2007-09-01 00:00:00

  • Observations on the history of epidemiology in western New York, 1843-1960.

    abstract::Epidemiology has a rich tradition in western New York State, beginning with the classic study by Austin Flint of a waterborne typhoid fever outbreak in North Boston in 1843. Other important investigations included the study of the Buffalo poliomyelitis epidemic of 1912, by Wade Hampton Frost, which provided a comprehe...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009215

    authors: Winkelstein W Jr

    更新日期:1997-12-01 00:00:00

  • Effects of temperature and snowfall on mortality in Pennsylvania.

    abstract::The relation between exposure to severe cold weather and mortality is examined in a retrospective study of deaths occurring during the month of January from 1991 to 1996 in Pennsylvania. Using division-days as units of observation (n = 1,560) aggregated from death certificates and geographic divisions, the authors est...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009770

    authors: Gorjanc ML,Flanders WD,VanDerslice J,Hersh J,Malilay J

    更新日期:1999-06-15 00:00:00

  • Spouse behavior and coronary heart disease in men: prospective results from the Framingham heart study. I. Concordance of risk factors and the relationship of psychosocial status to coronary incidence.

    abstract::The relationship of social status and behavior type to the incidence of coronary heart disease was examined among husbands and wives in the Framingham Heart Study. Between 1965 and 1967, 269 spouse pairs, in which the husbands were 45-64 years of age, were administered an extensive psychosocial questionnaire. These pa...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a113611

    authors: Haynes SG,Eaker ED,Feinleib M

    更新日期:1983-07-01 00:00:00

  • Marital status, change in marital status, and mortality in middle-aged British men.

    abstract::The effects of marital status and change in marital status on mortality among middle-aged British men were examined in a prospective cohort study, the British Regional Heart Study. This is a nationally representative cohort of men selected at random from general medical practices in 24 towns in England, Wales, and Sco...

    journal_title:American journal of epidemiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a117723

    authors: Ebrahim S,Wannamethee G,McCallum A,Walker M,Shaper AG

    更新日期:1995-10-15 00:00:00