This is the third edition of this text on logistic regression methods,
originally published in 1994, with its second e- tion published in 2002.
As in the first two editions, each chapter contains a pres- tation of
its topic in "lecture?book" format together with objectives, an outline,
key formulae, practice exercises, and a test. The "lecture book" has a
sequence of illust- tions, formulae, or summary statements in the left
column of each page and a script (i. e., text) in the right column. This
format allows you to read the script in conjunction with the
illustrations and formulae that highlight the main points, formulae, or
examples being presented. This third edition has expanded the second
edition by adding three new chapters and a modified computer appendix.
We have also expanded our overview of mod- ing strategy guidelines in
Chap. 6 to consider causal d- grams. The three new chapters are as
follows: Chapter 8: Additional Modeling Strategy Issues Chapter 9:
Assessing Goodness of Fit for Logistic Regression Chapter 10: Assessing
Discriminatory Performance of a Binary Logistic Model: ROC Curves In
adding these three chapters, we have moved Chaps. 8 through 13 from the
second edition to follow the new chapters, so that these previous
chapters have been ren- bered as Chaps. 11-16 in this third edition.