Odds ratios for a continuous outcome variable without dichotomizing

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1843-1860

  Moser, Barry Kurt ^a   Coombs, Laura P ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Dichotomizing; Linear regression; Logistic regression; Odds ratios

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OBESITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; VARIANCE;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO;

EID: 2942702127     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1776     Document Type: Article

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