Design of case-control studies
The design is as follows:
Outcome
positive (cases) | negative (controls) | |
exposure | a | b |
non-exposure | c | d |
The direction of enquiry may be drawn thus:
Cause <-----------------------------Effect
i.e. the study starts the effect (e.g. a disease) and tries to look back to find the cause(s).
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