Logistic Regression

Prerequisites: SPHBS 723 or 730. - This course provides basic knowledge of logistic regression for dichotomous outcomes, extensions of logistic regression to outcomes with a greater number of categories, and to regression models for count outcomes. The course focuses on prediction of categorical and count outcomes with emphasis on the use of maximum likelihood to determine estimates and test hypotheses, use of descriptive and diagnostic plots, and use of the SAS (or R) statistical package to perform analyses.