Thank you so much! I was looking at the wrong CI, you are correct. Getting back into the swing of classes alongside writing my thesis has been a bit fuzzy! I do have a low number of observations, which is why I opted for an exact log reg rather than a standard logistic regression. Below is the relevant blurb from my materials/methods section that will hopefully provide more context as to why I used this test. Please do feel free to chime in if I am not on the right track! I am very grateful, thank you. To summarize, I am looking at deceased individuals from the USS Oklahoma (Pearl Harbor casualties) and comparing the yes/no presence of incidence of enamel defects vs. the years of active military service they had completed upon death. I study forensic anthropology. "To compare the presence of each type of non-specific indicators of stress against military service length, the use of logistic regression tests was initially desired. The exact logistic regression test was used due to a small sample size (Bujang et al., 2018). Exact logistic regression is a statistical method that is used to model binary outcome variables where the log-odds are then modeled as a linear combination of independent variables; it is used when the sample size is not large or complete enough for a regular logistic regression (“Exact Logistic Regression”, n.d.). This testing is used to examine the association between a categorical or continuous independent variable with a dichotomous dependent variable, which is a two-level categorical variable. The variables in these tests were military service length as a quantitative (continuous) variable and then the presence of skeletal pathology is a categorical (binary) variable."
... View more