Logistic regression

Risk Factors for Late-Life Suicide Article Critique In the article by Turvey, Conwell, Jones, Phillips, Simonsick, Pearson, & Wallace, (2002), titled Risk factors for late-life suicide: a prospective, community-based study, the authors wanted to know what some of the risk factors for suicide in adults ages 65 and older. They performed a 10-year long study on 14,456 individuals that met the researchers criteria to see if any particular risk factors could be identified. This is an article…

beliefs, attitudes and skills. Strathdee et al. conducted a study to greater understand needle sharing in Vancouver (1997). This case-control study evaluated inquiries focused on drug use, sexual behaviours, source of needles, and depression. A logistic regression was used to identify individual behaviours that determined whether one would…

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to contribute to risk, researchers aimed to determine whether a combination of 76 genetic variants could help to better predict risk when combined with factors such as breast density. Researchers conducted three epidemiologic studies using logistic regression models to determine whether a combination of 76 SNPs, called the polygenic risk score (PRS), was a statistically significant risk factor independent of Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) breast density, which categorizes…

Texting while driving is dangerous and a potentially fatal behavior among the populace of college students with the influence one’s social network and how one identifies their significant other in that network being uniquely associated with this behavior. This study provided backing for the hypothesis that drivers who report texting and driving are more likely than drivers who report they do not text and drive to have others in their social network that hold comparable notions. Texting drivers…

Hornby, G. (2011). Parental Involvement in Childhood Education Building Effective School-Family Partnerships. New York, NY: Springer Science Business Media, LLC. In this book, parental involvement is expressed as a positive factor in children’s education. The author expresses that research reveals that PI helps improve elementary, middle, and secondary students’ academic and behavioral results. The beginning chapters set an evidence-based foundation and blueprint for creating PI awareness.…

non-attempters showing that attempters’ current episode was more acute. By factor analyses of the psychopathology rating scales, two state factors (psychosis and depression) and one trait factor (aggression/impulsivity) were generated. Using logistic regression, authors demonstrated that the aggression/impulsivity was strongly…

This is a review of the article titled Sex Differences in Concussion Symptoms of High School Athletes. The purpose of this study was to determine possible differences in concussion symptoms between genders of high school athletes. In the United States, more than 1.6 million sports-related concussions occur every year. Averages of 21% of these happen to high school athletes (Frommer et al., 2011). More males have participated in sports than females over the years. In 2008, 3.01 million (or…

level of measurement of the data. This includes the nominal variables (mode), ordinal, interval or ratio (median), and then the mean. Statistical tests applied The most appropriate statistical test to be applied for this study would be the logistic regression. This is because there are multiple independent variables (elderly with Alzheimer’s and elderly without Alzheimer’s) and there is one dependent variable (treatment care of the elderly). Moreover, it helps to develop a prediction…

have graduated from boot camp or offenders who were released from prison. The research did, however, show that unemployment, the length of sentence, prior criminal record and juvenile delinquents have a direct relationship with recidivism. The logistic regression analysis found that several of the control variables are related to the recidivism rate of offenders who have graduated from the Pennsylvania Boot Camp or released from prison (Kempinen & Kurlychek,…