Logistic regression

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1 Many statistical tests require the dependent (response) variable to be continuous so a different set of tests are needed when the dependent variable is categorical. One of the most commonly used tests for categorical variables is the Chi-squared test which looks at whether or not there is a relationship between two categorical variables but this doesn’t make an allowance for the potential influence of other explanatory variables on that relationship. For continuous outcome variables, Multiple regression can be used for