[R] Coding of categorical variables for logistic regression?

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Mon Mar 29 07:42:22 CEST 2010


Just because a covariate is ordered does not ensure that the  
relationship will be monotonic.

-- 
David.

On Mar 28, 2010, at 11:09 PM, C.H. wrote:

> ?polr of the MASS package.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Ravi Kulkarni  
> <ravi.kulk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> How do I use the "extra" information that two of my predictors are  
>> ordinal?
>> (I did not know I could do that.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>  Ravi
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