FITS OF TRIAL DATA BY LOGISTIC REGRESSION 
 
(b) Starting value for beta =  -3.437304 -0.074314 0.24421 0.191134 0.099062 0.024584 0.006334 -0.003953 
 
(c) Estimate of beta =  -5.650679 -0.162673 0.450375 0.406724 0.219395 0.053237 0.013327 -0.00753 
Number of iterations 5 
 
(e) Odds that a randomly chosen 60 year old who was randomized
to placebo and who had never smoked, with no previous MI, weighing 85
kg, and with systolic blood pressure of 130 will experience death or
MI in 30 days =  0.1000027