Proper handling of continuous variables is crucial in healthcare research, for example, within regression modelling for descriptive, explanatory, or predictive purposes. However, inadequate methods ...

Logistic regression is preferrable over a simpler statistical test such as chi-squared test or Fisher’s exact test as it can incorporate more than one explanatory variable and deals with possible ...

Logistic regression is preferrable over a simpler statistical test such as chi-squared test or Fisher’s exact test as it can incorporate more than one explanatory variable and deals with possible ...

In recent columns we showed how linear regression can be used to predict a continuous dependent variable given other independent variables 1,2. When the dependent variable is categorical, a common ...

One common problem in the use of multiple linear or logistic regression when analysing clinical data is the occurrence of explanatory variables (covariates) which are not independent, ie ...