[R] coefficient of logistic regression

John Fox jfox at mcmaster.ca
Tue Jun 3 12:56:13 CEST 2003


At 11:54 AM 6/3/2003 +0300, orkun wrote:

>in logistic regression,
>I want to know that it is possible to get probability values of each 
>predictors by
>using following formula for each predictor one by one (keeping constant 
>the others)
><<< exp(coef)/(1+exp(coef)) >>>

Dear Ahmet,

This will almost surely give you nonsense, since it produces a fitted 
probability ignoring the constant in the model (assuming that there is 
one), setting other predictors to 0 and the predictor in question to 1. 
What is it that you want to do?

I hope that this helps,
  John

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