st: RE: Why do logit model coefficients produce signs opposite to those obtained from OLS?

["Verkuilen, Jay" <JVerkuilen@gc.cuny.edu>]

Jitian Sheu wrote:

>I am just wondering whether this is "normal"? or I am doing anything wrong?

Are you running:

. logit mybinaryvar myindepvar
. regress mybinaryvar myindepvar

If so, the coefficient for myindepvar should be comparable in sign. As Maarten noted, -logistic- and -logit- aren't the same thing as the former reports odds ratios. 

-help logit-
-help logistic-



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