st: Re: Re: ordinal no longer ordinal

["Christer Thrane" <ch-thran@online.no>]

Hi,

I would say -- "good for you".

If you add three of your original ordinal variables your new variable has 
values fronm 0 to 12. In most cases, given that zeroes do not dominate the 
dsitribution, I would have few reservations against using the new variable 
as dependent witin a linear (i.e. OLS) framework.

The two remaining ordinal (0/4) varibles could be anlyzed with -ologit- 
or -oprobit-.

BR

Christer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc Campo" <mcam54@yahoo.com>
To: "Marc Campo" <mcam54@yahoo.com>; <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 5:56 AM
Subject: st: Re: ordinal no longer ordinal



> Hi all:
>
>  I am entering ordinal variables into LR as
> continuous I have 5
> ordinal indep vars all based on frequencies coded:
> 0 - 0x.day
> 1-1-5/day
> 2-6-10x/day
> 3 - 11-15x/day
> 4 - More than 15
>
> Three of them are highly related and I would like to
> combine them. However, just adding them establishes a
> new variable that is not ordinal.  What to do?
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated
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