A Researcher Is Interested in Studying the Effects of Smoking

Multiple Choice

A researcher is interested in studying the effects of smoking and alcohol use on post-operative complications in the hospital. The criterion variable is categorical with only two levels (complications: Yes or No) . Smoking is operationalized as number of packs smoked per week, and alcohol use is measured as number of alcoholic beverages consumed per week. What would be the appropriate complex statistic to use?

A) Multiple regression
B) Discriminant analysis
C) Factor analysis
D) MANOVA