Logistic Regression

This highly readable book describes fundamental and advanced concepts and methods of logistic regression. The 3rd edition includes three new chapters, an updated computer appendix, and an expanded section on modeling guidelines that consider causal diagrams.

This is the third edition of this text on logistic regression methods, originally published in 1994, with its second e- tion published in 2002. As in the first two editions, each chapter contains a pres- tation of its topic in "lecture? book" format together with objectives, an outline, key formulae, practice exercises, and a test. The "lecture book" has a sequence of illust- tions, formulae, or summary statements in the left column of each page and a script (i. e. , text) in the right column. This format allows you to read the script in conjunction with the illustrations and formulae that highlight the main points, formulae, or examples being presented. This third edition has expanded the second edition by adding three new chapters and a modified computer appendix. We have also expanded our overview of mod- ing strategy guidelines in Chap. 6 to consider causal d- grams. The three new chapters are as follows: Chapter 8: Additional Modeling Strategy Issues Chapter 9: Assessing Goodness of Fit for Logistic Regression Chapter 10: Assessing Discriminatory Performance of a Binary Logistic Model: ROC Curves In adding these three chapters, we have moved Chaps. 8 through 13 from the second edition to follow the new chapters, so that these previous chapters have been ren- bered as Chaps. 11-16 in this third edition.

to Logistic Regression. - Important Special Cases of the Logistic Model. - Computing the Odds Ratio in Logistic Regression. - Maximum Likelihood Techniques: An Overview. - Statistical Inferences Using Maximum Likelihood Techniques. - Modeling Strategy Guidelines. - Modeling Strategy for Assessing Interaction and Confounding. - Additional Modeling Strategy Issues. - Assessing Goodness of Fit for Logistic Regression. - Assessing Discriminatory Performance of a Binary Logistic Model: ROC Curves. - Analysis of Matched Data Using Logistic Regression. - Polytomous Logistic Regression. - Ordinal Logistic Regression. - Logistic Regression for Correlated Data: GEE. - GEE Examples. - Other Approaches for Analysis of Correlated Data.