The third edition of this highly successful text enables clinical researchers to set up, perform and interpret multivariable models.

Mitchell H. Katz is Clinical Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, Attending Physician at the San Francisco General Hospital, and Director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, USA.

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Common uses of multivariable models; 3. Outcome variables in multivariable analysis; 4. Type of independent variables in multivariable analysis; 5. Assumptions of multiple linear regression, multiple logistic regression, and proportional hazards analysis; 6. Relationship of independent variables to one another; 7. Setting up a multivariable analysis; 8. Performing the analysis; 9. Interpreting the analysis; 10. Checking the assumptions of the analysis; 11. Propensity scores; 12. Correlated observations; 13. Validation of models; 14. Special topics; 15. Publishing your study; 16. Summary: steps for constructing a multivariable model; Index.