Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 54, Issue 1 , Pages 99-103 , January 2001

A note on R2 measures for Poisson and logistic regression models when both models are applicable

Received 3 January 2000 ,Revised 23 May 2000 ,Accepted 15 June 2000.

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Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 54, Issue 1 , Pages 99-103 , January 2001