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Applications of Statistics to Medical Science, III Correlation and Regression

Hiroshi Watanabe

Department of Mathematics, Nippon Medical School

In this third part of a series surveying medical statistics, the concepts of correlation and regression are reviewed. In particular, methods of linear regression and logistic regression are discussed. Arguments related to survival analysis will be made in a subsequent paper.

J Nippon Med Sch 2012; 79: 115-120

Keywords
statistical test, statistical inference, regression, correlation

Correspondence to
Hiroshi Watanabe, Department of Mathematics, Nippon Medical School, 2-297-2 Kosugi-cho, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 211-0063, Japan
watmath@nms.ac.jp

Received, January 6, 2012
Accepted, February 10, 2012