In a study investigating maternal risk factors for congenital syphilis, syphilis is treated as a binary outcome variable, where 1 represents the presence of disease in a newborn and 0 represents absence of disease. The estimated coefficients from a logistic regression model containing the predictors cocaine or crack use, marital status, number of prenatal visits to a doctor, alcohol use and level of education are included in the table below. The estimated intercept is not included in the table.

Variable Coefficient Cocaine/Crack Use 1.354 Marital Status 0.779 Number of Prenatal Visits -0.098 Alcohol Use 0.723 Level of Education 0.298