Offers an introduction to the multipredictor regression methods widely used in biostatistics. This book focuses on the many-shared elements in the methods presented for selecting, estimating, checking, and interpreting each of these models.[...]
This new book provides a unified, in-depth, readable introduction to the multipredictor regression methods most widely used in biostatistics: linear models for continuous outcomes, logistic models for binary outcomes, the Cox model for right-censored survival times, repeated-measures models for long[...]