Suppose you are interested in estimating the effect that getting a flu shot has on the probability of contracting the flu.In this case,your preferred estimator would be
A)OLS.
B)a logit model.
C)WLS.
D)multiple linear regression.

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Since we are interested in estimating the effect of a binary treatment (getting a flu shot) on a binary outcome (contracting the flu), a suitable model to use would be a logit model. This model allows us to estimate the probability of an outcome in the presence of a binary treatment variable. OLS and WLS are not appropriate for binary outcomes, and multiple linear regression assumes a continuous outcome variable.

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