Interpretation of the odds ratio from logistic regression after a transformation of the covariate vector

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 1695-1703

  Elswick Jr , R K ^a   Schwartz, Pamela F ^b   Welsh, Josephine A ^c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; COVARIANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK;

ALCOHOLISM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; ROC CURVE;

EID: 1842372146     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970815)16:15<1695::AID-SIM601>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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