A practical guide for multivariate analysis of dichotomous outcomes

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 714-719

  Lee, James ^a,b   Chuen, Seng Tan ^b   Kee, Seng Chia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Alternatives to logistic regression; Cross sectional studies; Risk ratio vs odds ratio

Indexed keywords

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGLINEAR MODEL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REVIEW; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 69949139948     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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