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st: Nominal or ordinal?
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"Polis, Chelsea B." <[email protected]>
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st: Nominal or ordinal?
Date
Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:59:35 -0400
Dear Statalisters,
I am working with a dependent variable that has the following four potential responses: (1) Not Likely, (2) Slightly Likely,
(3) Quite Likely, (4) Extremely Likely.
A colleague thinks this is an ordinal variable which should be analyzed using ordered logit regression. My sense was that
this is a nominal variable, and should be analyzed using multinomial regression - since we cannot know if the levels are
equally spaced in people's minds.
My apologies for what is probably a very simplistic question, but I've searched Statalist and online, and I still am not
entirely certain. I would greatly appreciate input on this question.
Thanks,
Chelsea
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