st: Logistic regression interpretation -- vs. M-H

["Dr. Bill Westman" <webicky@gmail.com>]

helpful and generous with your time.  To other listers who replied --
thank you as well for your excellent guidance

I am wondering whether Mantel-Haenszel. is more or less appropriate in
2x2x2 situation with binary variables which spans across groups than
logistic regression.  I am reading Agresti's work which discusses this
now.  I believe epitab M-H is producing this test (at least I think it
is).  The results are quite different in terms of statistical
significance.  I am not sure if you or others have an opinion of the
differences in these models.

 I hope this last question isn't a nuisance, but there are several
Stata list posts on this issue and I was not able to come away with a
meaningful concluston

Thanks for reading...

Bill

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> --- On Wed, 22/9/10, Dr. Bill Westman wrote:
>> Also - those two di statements at show the exact same odds
>> - was this intentional?
>
> It is important to make a distinction between odds and odds-ratios.
> The former is a measure of the likelihood of an event, the latter
> is a measure of how this likelihood differs across groups.
>
> So in the example below we first compute the odds of union membership
> separately for married and non-married people. Remember that the odds
> is the expected number of union members per non-union member, so if
> we observe 10 union members and 20 non-union members then we expect
> to see 10/20=.5 union member for every non-union member.
>
> After that we look at how the odds of union membership differs between
> married and non-married women, by computing the ratio.
>
> After that I show that that is exactly what -logit- does.
>
> *--------------------------- begin example --------------------------
> sysuse nlsw88, clear
> tab married union
> di "the odds of union membership for married women is: " 280/942
> // so there are .30 union members for every non-union member when
> // the women is married
>
> di "the odds of union membership for non-married women is: " 181/475
> // so there are .38 union members of every non-union member when the
> // women is not married
>
> di "the odds of union membership for married women is " ///
>   (280/942)/(181/475)  " times the odds of union membership" ///
>   " for non-married women"
> // so mariage reduces the odds of memebership with 22%
>
> // this odds ratio can be recovered with -logit-.
> logit union married, or
>
> // the odds can be recovered using -margins.
> margins , exp(exp(xb())) over(married)
> *---------------------- end example ---------------------------------
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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