After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

• Identify the tables or measures used to investigate the connection between variables.
   
• Discuss how multivariate analysis is used to determine relationships between variables of categorical data.
   
• Explain the tools that treat a dependent variable as a linear function of various combinations of independent variables.
   
• Relate the ways in which to enter a categorical variable into a regression model.
   
• Describe the process of logistic regression.