Binary logistic regression: introduction (video 1 of 3)

This video introduces the method and discusses how it differs from linear regression. It shows a simple example with one explanatory variable to illustrate how the method works and how the results can be interpreted using either log-odds, odds or predicted probabilities.
This video is part of the NCRM Online Resource by Dr Heini Väisänen on Binary logistic regression. To see the whole resource visit www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/online/
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[@henry88493]

Hi Dr Heini Väisänen, this is by far the best ever binary logistic regression explanation I've ever come across. Thank you so much.

[@mehmetaliozer2403]

00:00 Intro 01:11 Binary Response 03:55 Why we can't use linear regression for binary outcomes 06:21 Make a regression model work for a binary outcome 07:50 Visual explanation of logit link function 10:28 Characteristics of logits and probabilities 12:07 Example#1: what is the prob. of a normal birth weight 14:04 Interpretation of fitted logistic regression model 18:02 How to report results

[@faridhusen6651]

I was hanging around all my day until i came across to your videos. Very well explained with plain English. May I say thank you very much?

[@jumashafara]

Thanks very much for this, you made it look so easy

[@manuelleitner3196]

Thank you for this great video!! At the beginning you mentioned that the EV can be on an ordinal scale too. However, is that totally correct? Because is it correct to interpret the beta coefficient (e.g., a unit increase in X increases the log odds by beta units) when the one-unit steps at the EV are not the same for each EV category (as common for ordinal-scaled variables)? For me, this makes only sense if you treat it as a dummy-coded variable (with one reference category) as you did in the video, but not, if you just put it in as a "normal" covariate (because then it is treated as continous).

[@vidyadharshinikalaimonyrab5901]

well explained. please explain how to calculate probability for women