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Re: st: Re: Ordinal independent variables in probit regression
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Nyasha Tirivayi <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Re: Ordinal independent variables in probit regression
Date
Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:21:37 +0200
Dear Joseph and Richard
Thank you for the suggestions! Very helpful!
Regards
N.Tirivayi
Netherlands
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Richard Williams
<[email protected]> wrote:
> You could do something like this:
>
> webuse nhanes2f, clear
> probit diabetes i.health
> est store m1
> probit diabetes health
> est store m2
> lrtest m1 m2
>
> If the contrast is not significant you can treat the variable as continuous.
>
> Incidentally, it doesn't particularly matter that probit is being used; the
> same sorts of approaches could be used for regress.
>
> Joseph, I am not that good with the contrast command, so I wouldn't mind
> seeing examples of how it could be used instead.
>
>
> At 07:15 PM 4/9/2014, Joseph Coveney wrote:
>>
>> Nyasha Tirivayi wrote:
>>
>> How best can I use a likert scale/ordered predictor in a probit
>> regression? The variable has five response categories from Strongly
>> disagree to Agree (neutral is the third response option).
>>
>> Should I include the variable as it is, where one category becomes the
>> reference? Or should I consider the variable to be continuous? Or
>> should I instead use the tab command to create dummies for all five
>> response options, and include the ones I am interested in ( e.g.
>> strongly agree and agree responsea)?
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> There are numerous ways to include it as a predictor. You could use
>> factor
>> variables and then use -contrast- after fitting the model. You could put
>> the
>> scores in linearly (as a continuous predictor). But it seems that you've
>> already hit upon the way that makes most sense from the standpoint of how
>> best
>> to address the question of scientific interest: create three indicator
>> variables, one for strongly agree, one for agree, and one for all of the
>> other
>> scores--something like that below. (You can accomplish the same thing
>> using a
>> factor variable and then constructing particular contrasts of interest
>> after
>> fitting the model.)
>>
>> generate byte strongly_agree = likertlike_score == "Strongly Agree"
>> generate byte agree = likertlike_score == "Agree"
>> generate byte others = !strongly_agree & !agree
>> probit response c.(strongly_agree agree others)
>>
>> Joseph Coveney
>>
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