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Revisiting the Wald Test in Small Case-Control Studies With a Skewed Covariate.

Komla M Gnona, William C L Stewart

    American Journal of Epidemiology
    |March 31, 2022
    PubMed
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    The Hauck-Donner effect (HDE) inflates P values in genetic association studies. A permutation test offers greater power and avoids HDE, making it ideal for small case-control studies.

    Keywords:
    P valueHauck-Donner effectWald testgenetic variants

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