Re: st: Binomial regression

[Marcello Pagano <pagano@hsph.harvard.edu>]

Sorry to disagree with your first sentence, Constantine.
Logistic regression stipulates a linear relationship of covariates with 
the log of the odds of an event (not odds ratios). 
From this it is straightforward to recover the probability (or risk, if 
you prefer that label) of the event.
Don't understand your aversion to logistic regression to achieve what 
you want to achieve.
If you don't like the shape of the logistic, then any other cdf will 
provide you with a transformation to obey the constraints inherent in 
modeling a probability.  The uniform distribution that you wish to use 
has to be curtailed, as others have pointed out.
m.p.


Constantine Daskalakis wrote:

> No argument about logistic regression. But that gives you odds ratios. 
> What if you want risk differences instead?
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