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Member Training: Multinomial Logistic Regression

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Multinomial logistic regression is an important type of categorical data analysis. Specifically, it’s used when your response variable is nominal: more than two categories and not ordered.
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Tagged With: categorical variable, logistic regression, Multinomial Logistic Regression

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

by Karen Grace-Martin  32 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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Member Training: Explaining Logistic Regression Results to Non-Researchers

by TAF Support 

Interpreting the results of logistic regression can be tricky, even for people who are familiar with performing different kinds of statistical analyses. How do we then share these results with non-researchers in a way that makes sense?

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Tagged With: categorical variable, graphing, interaction, logistic regression, numeric variable

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Member Training: Seven Fundamental Tests for Categorical Data

by TAF Support 

In the world of statistical analyses, there are many tests and methods that for categorical data. Many become extremely complex, especially as the number of variables increases. But sometimes we need an analysis for only one or two categorical variables at a time. When that is the case, one of these seven fundamental tests may come in handy.

These tests apply to nominal data (categories with no order to them) and a few can apply to other types of data as well. They allow us to test for goodness of fit, independence, or homogeneity—and yes, we will discuss the difference! Whether these tests are new to you, or you need a good refresher, this training will help you understand how they work and when each is appropriate to use.

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Tagged With: categorical outcome, categorical variable, chi-square test, cochran-mantel-haenszel, fisher exact test, goodness of fit, independence, mcnemar test, Z test

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Five Ways to Analyze Ordinal Variables (Some Better than Others)

by Karen Grace-Martin  4 Comments

There are not a lot of statistical methods designed just to analyze ordinal variables.

But that doesn’t mean that you’re stuck with few options.  There are more than you’d think.

Some are better than others, but it depends on the situation and research questions.

Here are five options when your dependent variable is ordinal.
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Tagged With: categorical variable, non-parametric, Ordinal Logistic Regression, rank-based test

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Linear Regression for an Outcome Variable with Boundaries

by Karen Grace-Martin  4 Comments

The following statement might surprise you, but it’s true.

To run a linear model, you don’t need an outcome variable Y that’s normally distributed. Instead, you need a dependent variable that is:

  • Continuous
  • Unbounded
  • Measured on an interval or ratio scale

The normality assumption is about the errors in the model, which have the same distribution as Y|X. It’s absolutely possible to have a skewed distribution of Y and a normal distribution of errors because of the effect of X. [Read more…] about Linear Regression for an Outcome Variable with Boundaries

Tagged With: bounded, categorical variable, ceiling effect, floor effect, linear regression, logistic regression, unbounded

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