Logistic Regression: A Self-Learning Text (Statistics for Biology and Health)

It is a long wordy introduction to logistic regression. The good point about this book is that it has a lot of exercises (most of them simiple) that strength your understanding. It also has answers. However, the material can be condensed into 1/4 of its 700 pages easily. Other books like Agresti's books on categorical analysis are far more condensed and more difficult to digest. I think this is a good book for beginners to learn logistic regression or regression in general.

This is well-organized and includes examples (not enough). The question sections at the ends of chapter are very helpful.

Written in a very clear way showing all the logical steps and many examples, including code at the back fro common stats packages. It starts each topic in a very way (too basic for me), but builds you up to a high technical level. The book provides many practise examples with answers and so is thus good for self-learning.

Very nice good book

Very annoying format / layout of the text with regards to supporting figures, equations, illustrations, etc. - everything placed in the margins in a difficult to read font. Most annoying is the author's habit of spelling out equations i.e. 1/(1+2) would be described as "one over the quantity of one plus two" - can't get past this and have given up on the text.

This book contains a detailed text along with a "presentation" next to the text, much like a Powerpoint presentation, which allows you to skim the material efficiently. I highly recommend this book for logistic modeling classes.

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self-learning textとある様に、ロジスティック回帰分析の基礎から応用(GEEなど)までを平易に解説した独習用教科書。数学者や統計学者の卵向けに書かれたものでは無いので、かなり冗長なきらいもあるが、生物学者や医者、疫学者が学習するにはとてもいい本だと思う。レイアウトも工夫がなされている。一ページにつき左側のコラムには視覚的に理解できるような表、図、数式変形が並んでおり、理解の早い人は右側のコラムの本文を見なくてもホイホイ読み進めることができる。701ページと見た目は分厚く圧倒されるが、読み手にとても親切な作りとなっている。少なくとも和書のロジスティック回帰分析のどの本よりも詳しく、かつ易しく書かれている。今まで読んだGLM関係の本ではベスト。2012/4/5追記邦訳本が出たようですね。「初心者のためのロジスティック回帰分析入門」丸善出版 2012この本自体は読んでないので評価できませんが。