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http://dx.doi.org/10.7465/jkdi.2015.26.6.1317

Clinical data analysis in retrospective study through equality adjustment between groups  

Kwak, Sang Gyu (Department of Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu)
Shin, Im Hee (Department of Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu)
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Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society / v.26, no.6, 2015 , pp. 1317-1325 More about this Journal
Abstract
There are two types of clinical research to figure out risk factor for disease using collected data. One is prospective study to approach the subjects from the present time and the other is retrospective study to find the risk factor using the subject's information in the past. Both approached and study design are different but the purpose of the two studies is to identify a significant difference between two groups and to find out what the variables to influence groups. Especially when comparing the two groups in clinical research, we have to look at the difference between the impact clinical variables by group while controlling the influence of the baseline characteristics variables such as age and sex. However, in the retrospective study, the difference of baseline characteristic variables can occur more frequently because the past records did not randomly assign subjects into two groups. In clinical data analysis use covariates to solve this problem. Typically, the analysis method using the analysis of covariance of variance, adjusted model, and propensity score matching method. This study is introduce the way of equality adjustment between groups data analysis using covariates in retrospective clinical studies and apply it to the recurrence of gastric cancer data.
Keywords
Clinical research; covariate; propensity score matching; retrospective study;
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