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Uses of multiple logistic regression

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Nuclear Cardiology in Everyday Practice

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 146))

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At present, regression methods are an essential component of the analysis of data of any medical study describing the relationship between an outcome variable, or dependent variable, and one or more explanatory independent variables.

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VaquƩ-Rafart, J. (1994). Uses of multiple logistic regression. In: Candell-Riera, J., Ortega-Alcalde, D. (eds) Nuclear Cardiology in Everyday Practice. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 146. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1984-9_20

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