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Regression analysis

Senior Research Fellow/Statistician, University of Edinburgh, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK; steff.lewis@ed.ac.uk

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Regression analysis describes the relation between an outcome of interest and one or more variables, known as explanatory variables. For example, figure 1 shows how height (the outcome) is related to age (the explanatory variable) in young children. Each cross on the plot represents the value for an individual child, and the dotted line is the regression line, which will be explained later.

View larger version (9K):   Figure 1 Scatter plot of height and age in 100 children, with regression line. (Data used with permission from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. Social Survey Division, National Diet, Nutrition and Dental Survey of Children Aged 1 1/2 to 4 1/2 Years, 1992–1993. SN: 3481. Colchester, UK: December 1995.)

• continuous outcomes (such as height): linear regression
  
• binary outcomes (such as stroke/no stroke): logistic regression
  
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