title: On the desirability of the Mantel-Haenszel summary measure in case-control studies of multifactor etiology of disease.
abstract: Interesting properties of Mantel-Haenszel summary measure with important consequences in retrospective epidemiologic investigations are derived directly from the functional form of the weight function. The concept of confounding is examined in the context of case-control studies evaluating the etiologic significance of exposure to more than one risk factor. The use of M-H summary measure is suggested for calculating adjusted risks in multifactor studies.
mesh_terms: D004194:Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006801:Humans; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014768:Virginia