This article is part of a series on Medical statistics, edited by Jonathan Ball, Viv Bewick and Liz Cheek.

Review

Statistics review 14: Logistic regression

Viv Bewick¹ , Liz Cheek¹ and Jonathan Ball²

¹Senior Lecturer, School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

²Senior Registrar in ICU, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia

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Critical Care 2005, 9:112-118doi:10.1186/cc3045

Published:	13 January 2005

Abstract

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.