Is the usage "multiple logistic regression analysis" correct?

Question

I encountered a manuscript where the author writes:

Risk associations for metabolic syndrome and diabetes were analyzed using multiple logistic regression analyses..."

In this case, is the usage regression analyses correct? Isn't the word multiple logistic regression self-sufficient? I felt it was inaccurate to use analyzed twice in the same sentence.

rajah9 · Answer

A correct parsing of this phrase would be:

multiple (Logistic Regression) analyses

Logistic regression is a separate term and is a statistical model. The writer is doing multiple analyses, all of which use logistic regression.
At its core, the sentence is:

Risk associations ... were analyzed using multiple ... analyses

So the associations were analyzed using multiple analyses. This seems grammatically and syntactically correct.

Is the usage "multiple logistic regression analysis" correct?

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