RE: st: RE: Unordered Categorical Predictor Variable

[Richard Williams <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com>]

At 09:15 AM 1/25/2013, Cohen, Elan wrote:
> Louis,
>
> You'll be interested in the postestimation command -test- and maybe 
> -margins-.  Also, you no longer need to use the -xi:- prefix.
>
> sysuse auto
> reg price i.rep78
> test 2.rep78=3.rep78
>
> HTH,
>
> - Elan

This makes sense to me but I am not clear what Louis wants, since he 
keeps on talking about 1 category versus all the others, but he 
doesn't want to do one family vs the mean of the others. Is this what he wants?

sysuse auto
reg price i1.rep78
reg price i2.rep78
reg price i3.rep78
reg price i4.rep78
reg price i5.rep78

I don't particularly like that since only one dummy is included at a 
time but it is one category vs all others. If Louis can get Stata 12, 
maybe the contrast command could give him what he wants.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu 
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of louis grandjean
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 19:34
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: RE: Unordered Categorical Predictor Variable
>
> Thanks Peter for your help.  I'm sure you're not missing the point.  I
> may be however.  If I use the i.varname command with xi: then I will
> get the odds ratio reported for one comparison of interest, i.e.
> bacterial family 1 vs bacterial family 2,3 & 4 as the reference.  I
> also want to know the odds ratio for bacterial family 2 vs 1,3 & 4.
> Could I just run the regression again having changed the base
> reference, or is there some way I can do it in the one command.
>
>
>
> On 24 January 2013 18:48, Lachenbruch, Peter
> <Peter.Lachenbruch@oregonstate.edu> wrote:
> > i may be missing the point here, but why cant you use the factor 
> variable coding (i.varname)  you can vary the base variable.  See 
> factor variable in manual.  comparing all possible factor codings 
> doesn't make much sense since they will be dependent, and you can 
> use contrasts for whatever you want.
> >
> > Peter A. Lachenbruch,
> > Professor (retired)
> > ________________________________________
> > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu 
> [owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] on behalf of louis grandjean 
> [lgrandjean@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:08 AM
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Subject: st: Unordered Categorical Predictor Variable
> >
> > Dear Statalist,
> >
> > I'm using Stata 11 and am struggling with how to best analyse an
> > unordered categorical predictor in a logistic regression.
> >
> > My categorical predictor is "bacterial family" so it doesn't make
> > sense to always compare one family to an arbitrarily chosen reference
> > family.  What I want to do is compare each family in turn to all the
> > other families.
> >
> > I think deviation coding would give me one family vs the mean of all
> > the families, but I want to get one family vs the other famlies, and
> > obtain an odds ratio for each level.
> >
> > I've looked at xi3 but this doesn't seem to answer the problem.
> >
> > I'd be very grateful for your thoughts.
> >
> > Best wishes Louis
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