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

Ronán Conroy ()

Stata Journal, 2002, vol. 2, issue 3, 290-295

Abstract: 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. Copyright 2002 by Stata Corporation.

Keywords: adjust; correlation; logistic regression; regression; scatterplot smoothing; t tests (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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