Choosing an appropriate real-life measure of effect size: the case of a continuous predictor and a binary outcome

被引：15

作者：

Conroy, Ronan M. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Royal Coll Surgeons Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

来源：

STATA JOURNAL | 2002年 / 2卷 / 03期

关键词：

st0021; adjust; correlation; logistic regression; regression; scatterplot smoothing; t tests;

D O I：

10.1177/1536867X0200200305

中图分类号：

O1 [数学]; C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

03 ; 0303 ; 0701 ; 070101 ;

摘要：

A case study of data on age and pregnancy is used to point up some morals for practicing data analysts, including the superiority of regression over t tests, exploratory scatterplot smoothing as a key method of checking form of relationship, and the value of logistic regression followed by adjust as a way of getting at the numbers of most interest.

引用

页码：290 / 295

页数：6