Selection of a subset of meaningful covariates for a statistical model is an important and often time-consuming task in model building. Lawless and Singhal (1978, Biometrics 34, 318-327) proposed a ...

In recent columns we showed how linear regression can be used to predict a continuous dependent variable given other independent variables 1,2. When the dependent variable is categorical, a common ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters of the binary logistic regression model for $\pr(H\mid x)$ is discussed with separate ...