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 ...

The most commonly used statistical models of civil war onset fail to correctly predict most occurrences of this rare event in out-of-sample data. Statistical methods for the analysis of binary data, ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Many papers in hospitality and tourism research use logistic regression as the multivariate estimation strategy. When the results from these ...