1 Paper 061-2010 Using SAS ® to Perform Individual Matching in Design of Case-Control Studies Greg Grandits, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Jacqueline Neuhaus, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Abstract: In the design of case-control studies it is often desired to match each case with one or more controls based on a set of variables and maximum differences between case and control in these variables. Case-control studies can arise within cohort studies where it is desired to compare subjects experiencing an event (cases) to subjects not experiencing the event (controls) for some risk factor not yet measured, but available upon further data extraction (e.g., blood determination from stored speci

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