<prompt> An investigator concluded that presence or absence of five factors determine the disease condition. Which of the following would be most appropriate next study to determine if any of these five factors are independent precursors of the disease?Multiple linear regression analysisMultiple logistic regression analysisAnalysis of variance ANOVAKruskall - Wallis Analysis of ranks  <response>: Logistic regression analysis is a popular and widely used analysis that is similar to linear regression analysis except that the outcome is dichotomous e.g., successfailure or yesno or diedlived. we examine the odds of an outcome occurring or not, and by using the natural log of the odds of the outcome as the dependent variable the relationships can be linearized and treated much like multiple linear regression. 