Regresión logística en la literatura psiquiátrica: evaluación de los artículos publicados entre 2002 y 2005 en una prominente revista

INTRODUCTION: Many articles in journals that specialize in psychiatry use logistic regression to identify the effect of independent variables on the probability of occurrence of an event. Assessments of articles published in other medical specialties have shown that the report of logistic regression is incomplete in many cases and this leads to difficulties in interpretation. OBJECTIVE: Assess the quality related to logistic regression analysis and accomplishment of internal validity criteria of articles published in a high impact journal specialized in psychiatry. METHODS: Two independent rev...