title: Racial/ethnic and educational differences in the estimated odds of recent nitrite use among adult household residents in the United States: an illustration of matching and conditional logistic regression.
abstract: This article compares estimates of the relative odds of nitrite use obtained from weighted unconditional logistic regression with estimates obtained from conditional logistic regression after post-stratification and matching of cases with controls by neighborhood of residence. We illustrate these methods by comparing the odds associated with nitrite use among adults of four racial/ethnic groups, with and without a high school education. We used aggregated data from the 1994-B through 1996 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA). Difference between the methods and implications for analysis and inference are discussed.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306-2570, USA. jdelva@mailer.fsu.edu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Delva
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Spencer
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000280:Administration, Inhalation; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001213:Asian / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D004522:Educational Status; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D013287:Illicit Drugs; D016015:Logistic Models; D009573:Nitrites / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
chemical_list: D013287:Illicit Drugs; D009573:Nitrites