A modified approach to estimating sample size for simple logistic regression with one continuous covariate

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 97-107

  Novikov, I ^a   Fund, N ^b   Freedman, L S ^a  

^a GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Logistic regression; Power; Sample size; Simulation; Study design

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 74849084847     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3728     Document Type: Article

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