A Predictive Model to Determine the Pattern of Nodal Metastasis in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Table 3

The final regression model identifies differentiation, invasion, and stage as the predictors of the level of positivity in OSCC.

Model		Unstandardized coefficients		Standardized coefficients		Sig.
			Std. error	Beta
	(Constant)		.231			.000
	stage	.711	.071	.505	10.071	.000
	(Constant)		.293			.000
	Stage	.620	.067	.440	9.320	.000
	Invasion	.573	.081	.336	7.113	.000
	(Constant)
	Stage
	Invasion
	Differentia

variable: level of nodal positivity. Adjusted -squared = 0.368; the final regression model (3).