A procedure to tabulate and plot results after flexible modeling of a quantitative covariate

Stata Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-29

  Orsini, Nicola ^a   Greenland, Sander ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cubic spline; Logistic regression; Modeling strategies; St0215; Xblc

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952958381     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x1101100101     Document Type: Article

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