2. Logistic regression is a form of multiple regression. It identifies the variables that collectively distinguish cases belonging to different categories of a nominal (or category) variable. For example, it could be used to identify the differentiating characteristics of psychology, sociology and physics students.
3.Put another way, logistic regression identifies groups of variables that accurately classify people according to their membership of the different categories of a nominal variable.
4. Binomial logistic regression is used if there are just two categories of the variable to be predicted.
5. Please refer to pages 288-302, chapter 31, of the book,
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