Date:         Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:12:37 -0500
Reply-To:     "C. Mitchell Dayton" <cd4@UMAIL.UMD.EDU>
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From:         "C. Mitchell Dayton" <cd4@UMAIL.UMD.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Sampling problem
Comments: To: enzmann@kfn.uni-hannover.de
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        This would seem to be a case-control
(retrospective) study that is standard fare in the
health/medical field. See, for example, the discussion in
J.L. Fleiss, Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions,
Wiley, 1981.


On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:33:04 +0100 Dirk Enzmann
<enzmann@KFN-NT.KFN.UNI-HANNOVER.DE> wrote:

> This is not a SPSS-question, but ...
>
> I think that there are special problems if sample selection and matching
> of a "control" group are done on the dependent variable instead on the
> independent variable. Can someone point me to "authoritative" references
> _discussing_ the respective problems (or even merits) of such a sampling
> approach in some detail?
>
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C. Mitchell Dayton, Professor
Department of Measurement & Statistics
           and
Joint Program in Survey Methodology
cd4@umail.umd.edu