Logistic Regression: A Self-learning Text, Third Edition (Statistics in the Health Sciences)

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Objectives Upon completing this chapter, the learner should be able to:



  1. State or recognize when the use of ordinal logistic
    regression may be appropriate.

  2. State or recognize the proportional odds assumption.

  3. State or recognize the proportional odds model.

  4. Given a printout of the results of a proportional odds
    model:
    a. State the formula and compute the odds ratio.
    b. State the formula and compute a confidence
    interval for the odds ratio.
    c. Test hypotheses about the model parameters using
    the likelihood ratio test or the Wald test, stating the
    null hypothesis and the distribution of the test
    statistic with the corresponding degrees of freedom
    under the null hypothesis.


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