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Synthesis of evidence from epidemiological studies with interval-censored exposure due to grouping. (English) Zbl 1209.62273

Summary: We describe a method for assessing dose – response effects from a series of case – control and cohort studies in which the exposure information is interval censored. The interval censoring of the exposure variable is dealt with through the use of retrospective models in which the exposure is treated as a multinomial response and disease status as a binary covariate. Polychotomous logistic regression models are adopted in which the dose-response relationship between exposure and disease may be modeled in a discrete or continuous fashion. Partial conditioning is possible to eliminate some of the nuisance parameters. The methods are applied to the motivating study of the relationship between chorionic villus sampling and the occurrence of terminal transverse limb reduction.

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62P10 Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis
62N01 Censored data models
62H12 Estimation in multivariate analysis
92C50 Medical applications (general)
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