Are you familiar with literature on case-control population studies?
It appears to be a situation similar to yours. There's a chapter by
Alastair Scott in Chambers & Skinner "Analysis of Complex Survey Data"
volume (http://www.citeulike.org/user/ctacmo/article/1036969).
On 12/30/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear stata listers
>
> I want to make logistic regressions in rare events data which are obtained
> from a complex clustered survey. So far I used the svylogit command to
> take account of the clustering of the data. I also used the weight command
> to control for different selection probabilities.
>
> However, since I am also dealing with a rare event (5-6%) it might be
> important to correct for the bias when the observed events are rare. I
> know the relogit command from Gary King. However, there does not seem to
> be an option to run this command with data from a non-simple random
> sample.
>
> In your view, what is more important: taking account of the clustering of
> the data or correcting for the rare-events bias?
> Best would obviously be a command that can do both. Is there such a
> command?
>
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