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Karen Grace-Martin

When Linear Models Don’t Fit Your Data, Now What?

by Karen Grace-Martin 29 Comments

When your dependent variable is not continuous, unbounded, and measured on an interval or ratio scale, linear models don’t fit. The data just will not meet the assumptions of linear models. But there’s good news, other models exist for many types of dependent variables.

Today I’m going to go into more detail about 6 common types of dependent variables that are either discrete, bounded, or measured on a nominal or ordinal scale and the tests that work for them instead. Some are all of these.

[Read more…] about When Linear Models Don’t Fit Your Data, Now What?

Tagged With: binary variable, categorical variable, Censored, dependent variable, Discrete Counts, Multinomial, ordinal variable, Poisson Regression, Proportion, Proportional Odds Model, regression models, Truncated, Zero Inflated

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What Is Specification Error in Statistical Models?

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When we think about model assumptions, we tend to focus on assumptions like independence, normality, and constant variance. The other big assumption, which is harder to see or test, is that there is no specification error. The assumption of linearity is part of this, but it’s actually a bigger assumption.

What is this assumption of no specification error? [Read more…] about What Is Specification Error in Statistical Models?

Tagged With: curvilinear effect, interaction, Model Building, predictors, specification error, statistical model, transformation

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The Difference Between an Odds Ratio and a Predicted Odds

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When interpreting the results of a regression model, the first step is to look at the regression coefficients. Each term in the model has one. And each one describes the average difference in the value of Y for a one-unit difference in the value of the predictor variable, X, that makes up that term. It’s the effect size statistic for that term in the model. [Read more…] about The Difference Between an Odds Ratio and a Predicted Odds

Tagged With: marginal means, odds ratio, predicted odds, regression coefficients

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Measures of Model Fit for Linear Regression Models

by Karen Grace-Martin 37 Comments

A well-fitting regression model results in predicted values close to the observed data values. Stage 2

The mean model, which uses the mean for every predicted value, generally would be used if there were no useful predictor variables. The fit of a proposed regression model should therefore be better than the fit of the mean model. [Read more…] about Measures of Model Fit for Linear Regression Models

Tagged With: F test, Model Fit, R-squared, regression models, RMSE

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An Example of Specifying Within-Subjects Factors in Repeated Measures

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Some repeated measures designs make it quite challenging to  specify within-subjects factors. Especially difficult is when the design contains two “levels” of repeat, but your interest is in testing just one.

Let’s look at a great example of what this looks like and how to deal with it in this great question from a reader :

The Design:

I want to do a GLM (repeated measures ANOVA) with the valence of some actions of my test-subjects (valence = desirability of actions) as a within-subject factor. My subjects have to rate a number of actions/behaviours in a pre-set list of 20 actions from ‘very likely to do’ to ‘will never do this’ on a scale from 1 to 7, and some of these actions are desirable (e.g. help a blind man crossing the street) and therefore have a positive valence (in psychology) and some others are non-desirable (e.g. play loud music at night) and therefore have negative valence in psychology.

My question is how I can use valence as a within-subjects factor in GLM. Is there a way to tell SPSS some actions have positive valence and others have negative valence ? I assume assigning labels to the actions will not do it, as SPSS does not make analyses based on labels …
Please help. Thank you.

[Read more…] about An Example of Specifying Within-Subjects Factors in Repeated Measures

Tagged With: linear mixed model, repeated measures anova, within subject factor

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Three Habits in Data Analysis That Feel Efficient, Yet are Not

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It’s easy to develop bad habits in data analysis. When you’re new to it, you just don’t have enough experience to realize that what feels like efficiency will actually come back to make things take longer, introduce problems, and lead to more frustration. [Read more…] about Three Habits in Data Analysis That Feel Efficient, Yet are Not

Tagged With: bad habits, Data Analysis, organization, syntax

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