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What are the advantages of a case-control study?
- Can study multiple exposures for a single outcome
- Small sample size = less time = low cost = no loss to follow-up
- Suitable for long latency and rare diseases
- Few ethical issues
What are disadvantages of a case-control study?
- No absolute risk/rates
- More prone to bias
- Often performed 'quick and dirty'
What are the advantages of a cross-sectional study?
- Quick and cheap
- Ethically safe
- You can calculate prevalence
- Higher grades + faster learning
- Never study anything twice
- 100% sure, 100% understanding
What are the disadvantages of a cross-sectional study?
- Poor design for etiologic research, better for diagnostic
- Consequences of T = 0? Reversed causality? Causal inference?
- Selection bias
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