Statistics review 14: Logistic regression
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* Corresponding author: Viv Bewick v.bewick@brighton.ac.uk
1 Senior Lecturer, School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
2 Senior Registrar in ICU, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Critical Care 2005, 9:112-118 doi:10.1186/cc3045
Published: 13 January 2005Abstract
This review introduces logistic regression, which is a method for modelling the dependence of a binary response variable on one or more explanatory variables. Continuous and categorical explanatory variables are considered.