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Re: st: Ologit question
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"JVerkuilen (Gmail)" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Ologit question
Date
Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:27:43 -0400
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Anat (Manes) Tchetchik
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Jay
> one last question, I now realize that the dependent caterogical var.
> I'm using, "Tier", is distributed as follows: (with only four cases
> having the value 4).
> Shell I drop these cases?
>
> Tier | Freq. Percent Cum.
> ------------+-----------------------------------
> 1 | 56 37.84 37.84
> 2 | 58 39.19 77.03
> 3 | 30 20.27 97.30
> 4 | 4 2.70 100.00
> ------------+-----------------------------------
> Total | 148 100.00
I'd merge them into 3. It's situations like this category for which
the tests of threshold are most important. Chances are good that this
one wouldn't be much distinguished from that of 3 anyway.
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