Logistic regression is preferrable over a simpler statistical test such as chi-squared test or Fisher’s exact test as it can incorporate more than one explanatory variable and deals with possible ...

Linear regression captures the relationship between two variables—for example, the relationship between the daily change in a company's stock prices and the daily change in trading volume.

The LOGISTIC and PROBIT procedures can perform logistic and ordinal logistic regression. See Chapter 5, "Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis Procedures," Chapter 39, "The LOGISTIC Procedure," ...