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Mortality is the most frequently modeled outcome in injury research. It is easy to recognize, ­relatively free from measurement error, and fundamentally interesting. Injury researchers in public health or clinical medicine have become familiar with logistic regression as a standard way to model a binary outcome like mortality (or alternatively survival). Many other outcomes encountered in injury research can also be considered binary, such as the occurrence of a serious complication or an extended length of stay in hospital.

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Acknowledgments

Supported in part by Grant R21HD061318 (PI Clark) from the National Institutes of Health, Grants R01HS015656 (PI Clark) and R01HS017718 (PI Shafi) from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a grant from the Maine Medical Center Research Strategic Plan (PI Clark), and a research award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (PI Moore).

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  1. Maine Medical Center, Suite 210, 887 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04102, USA

    David E. Clark MD

  2. Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

    David E. Clark MD

  3. Département de Médecine Sociale et Préventive, Université Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada

    Lynne Moore PhD

  4. Centre Hospitalier Affilié Universitaire de Québec, Pavillon Enfant-Jésus, 1401, 18ème rue, Quebec City, QC, Canada, G1J 1Z4

    Lynne Moore PhD

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    Susan P. Baker

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Clark, D.E., Moore, L. (2012). Multilevel Modeling. In: Li, G., Baker, S. (eds) Injury Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1599-2_23

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