A simulation study of the number of events per variable in logistic regression analysis

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1373-1379

  Peduzzi, Peter ^a,b,c   Concato, John ^b,c   Kemper, Elizabeth ^a,c   Holford, Theodore R ^c   Feinstem, Alvan R ^b,c  

^a VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center   (United States)

^b VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Monte Carlo; Precision; Significance testing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0030474271     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(96)00236-3     Document Type: Article

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