In:
Human Heredity, S. Karger AG, Vol. 82, No. 1-2 ( 2016), p. 21-36
Kurzfassung:
Logistic regression is widely used to evaluate the association between risk factors and a binary outcome. The logistic curve is symmetric around its point of inflection. Alternative families of curves, such as the additive Gompertz or Guerrero-Johnson models, have been proposed in various scenarios due to their asymmetry: disease risk may initially increase rapidly and be followed by a longer period where the rate of growth slowly decreases. When modeling binary outcomes in relation to risk factors, an additive logistic model may not provide a good fit to the data. Suppose the outcome and an additive function of the risk factors are indeed related through an asymmetric function, but we model the relationship using a logistic function. We illustrate - both from a mathematical framework and through a simulation-based evaluation - that higher-order terms, such as pairwise interactions and quadratic terms, may be required in a logistic regression model to obtain a good fit to the data. Importantly, as significant higher-order terms may be a manifestation of model misspecification, these terms should be cautiously interpreted; a more pragmatic approach is to develop contrasts of disease risk coming from a good fitting model. We illustrate these concepts in 2 cohort studies examining early death for late-stage colorectal and pancreatic cancer cases, and 2 case-control studies investigating NAT2 acetylation, smoking, and advanced colorectal adenoma and bladder cancer.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
0001-5652
,
1423-0062
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
S. Karger AG
Publikationsdatum:
2016
ZDB Id:
1482710-4
SSG:
12
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