Abnormally wide confidence intervals in logistic regression: interpretation of statistical program results
This study describes the behavior of eight statistical programs (BMDP, EGRET, JMP, SAS, SPSS, STATA, STATISTIX and SYSTAT) when performing a logistic regression with a simulated data set that contains a numerical problem created by the presence of a cell value equal to zero. The programs respond in...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:1dc328be2c8241d4be2cf8ab456fc5cb 2023-05-15T15:01:19+02:00 Abnormally wide confidence intervals in logistic regression: interpretation of statistical program results Irala Jokin de Fernandez-Crehuet Navajas Rafael Serrano del Castillo Amparo 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/1dc328be2c8241d4be2cf8ab456fc5cb EN ES PT eng spa por Pan American Health Organization http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49891997001000007 https://doaj.org/toc/1020-4989 1020-4989 https://doaj.org/article/1dc328be2c8241d4be2cf8ab456fc5cb Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, Vol 2, Iss 4, Pp 268-271 (1997) Medicine R Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 article 1997 ftdoajarticles 2022-12-31T05:10:27Z This study describes the behavior of eight statistical programs (BMDP, EGRET, JMP, SAS, SPSS, STATA, STATISTIX and SYSTAT) when performing a logistic regression with a simulated data set that contains a numerical problem created by the presence of a cell value equal to zero. The programs respond in different ways to this problem. Most of them give a warning, although many simultaneously present incorrect results, among which are confidence intervals that tend toward infinity. Such results can mislead the user. Various guidelines are offered for detecting these problems in actual analyses, and users are reminded of the importance of critical interpretation of the results of statistical programs. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic |
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This study describes the behavior of eight statistical programs (BMDP, EGRET, JMP, SAS, SPSS, STATA, STATISTIX and SYSTAT) when performing a logistic regression with a simulated data set that contains a numerical problem created by the presence of a cell value equal to zero. The programs respond in different ways to this problem. Most of them give a warning, although many simultaneously present incorrect results, among which are confidence intervals that tend toward infinity. Such results can mislead the user. Various guidelines are offered for detecting these problems in actual analyses, and users are reminded of the importance of critical interpretation of the results of statistical programs. |
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Abnormally wide confidence intervals in logistic regression: interpretation of statistical program results |
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Abnormally wide confidence intervals in logistic regression: interpretation of statistical program results |
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Abnormally wide confidence intervals in logistic regression: interpretation of statistical program results |
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