{"id":7432,"date":"2019-05-22T15:56:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/case-comparison_design\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:56:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:48","slug":"case-comparison_design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/case-comparison_design\/","title":{"rendered":"Case-comparison design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A research design in which cases of a given disease or other condition are sampled for study. &nbsp;A comparison sample of persons not having the condition is also recruited, as far as possible from the same basic population. &nbsp;These samples are then compared on exposure to hypothesised risks for the condition.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"epidemiology\">Epidemiology<\/a>, <a href=\"odds_ratio\">Odds ratio<\/a>, <a href=\"rate_ratio\">Rate ratio<\/a>, <a href=\"risk_factors\">Risk factors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research design in which cases of a given disease or other condition are sampled for study. &nbsp;A comparison sample of persons not having the condition is also recruited, as far as possible from the same basic population. &nbsp;These samples are then compared on exposure to hypothesised risks for the condition. See Epidemiology, Odds ratio, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/case-comparison_design\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Case-comparison design&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}