[R] Analysis of ordinal categorical data

[P. B. Pynsent]

Thomas,
R code for Agresti's book "Catagorical Data Analysis  is available on  
Laura Thompson's
  web site.
http://math.cl.uh.edu/~thompsonla/
You might find the book and the code helpful.
Paul
On 5 May 2004, at 13:45, thsudler at swissonline.ch wrote:

> Hi
>
> I would like to analyse an ordinal categorical variable. I know how I 
> can analyse a nominal categorical variable (with multinom or if there 
> are only two levels with glm).
>
> Does somebody know which command I need in R to analyse an ordinal 
> categorical variable?
>
> I want to describe the variable y with the variables x1,x2,x3 and x4. 
> So my model looks like: y ~ x1+x2+x3+x4.
>
> y: ordinal factor variable with levels (never, rare, bychance, often).
>
> Thanks a lot in advance
> Thomas
>
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P. B. Pynsent,
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