A New Estimation Approach for Combining Epidemiological Data From Multiple Sources
A New Estimation Approach for Combining Epidemiological Data From Multiple Sources
AbstractWe propose a novel two-step procedure to combine epidemiological data obtained from diverse sources with the aim to quantify risk factors affecting the probability that an individual develops certain disease such as cancer. In the first step, we derive all possible unbiased estimating functions based on a group of cases …