What Is a Matched Case Control Study Design
The Matched Pair Case-Control Study Calculates the Statistical Relationship Between Exposures and the Likelihood of Becoming Ill in a Given Patient Population...
The Matched Pair Case-Control Study calculates the statistical relationship between exposures and the likelihood of becoming ill in a given patient population. This study is used to investigate a cause of an illness by selecting a non-ill person as the control and matching the control to a case.
What is matched control?
noun. Statistics. (More fully “matched control group”) a control group of individuals selected to resemble an experimental group in all properties except the one under investigation.
What is a matching study design?
A matched pairs design is a type of experimental design wherein study participants are matched based on key variables, or shared characteristics, relevant to the topic of the study. Then, one member of each pair is placed into the control group while the other is placed in the experimental group.
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