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	MAIHDA	Logistic Regression
Field	Gender Studies	Research Statistics
Family	Regression model	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2018	1958
Originator	Clare Evans & S. V. Subramanian (building on Juan Merlo)	David Roxbee Cox
Type	Cross-classified random-effects multilevel model	Method
Seminal source	Evans, C. R., Williams, D. R., Onnela, J.-P., & Subramanian, S. V. (2018). A multilevel approach to modeling health inequalities at the intersection of multiple social identities. Social Science & Medicine, 203, 64–73.	Cox, D. R. (1958). The regression analysis of binary sequences. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 20(2), 215–242.
Aliases	Intersectional MAIHDA, Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy, Intersectional Multilevel Analysis	logit model, binomial logistic regression, LR
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Summary	MAIHDA — Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy — is a quantitative method for studying intersectional inequalities. Introduced for intersectionality by Clare Evans and S. V. Subramanian in 2018, building on Juan Merlo's discriminatory-accuracy framework, it treats the many strata formed by crossing social categories (for example gender × race/ethnicity × education) as level-2 units in a multilevel model, then partitions outcome variation between and within those strata to assess how much intersectional position predicts the outcome.	Logistic regression is a statistical method for modeling the probability of a binary outcome (disease present/absent, success/failure) as a function of continuous and categorical predictors. Developed by David Roxbee Cox (1958), it solves the problem of predicting categorical outcomes by applying a logistic transformation to constrain predictions to the [0,1] probability interval, enabling accurate risk stratification, diagnostic prediction, and causal inference in epidemiology, medicine, and social science.