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Re: About Binary logistic regression Analysis [message #11745 is a reply to message #11738] Mon, 06 February 2017 09:52 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Liz-DHS
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A response from Dr. Tom Pullum,
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This is potentially a more difficult question than you may realize. There are several different possibilities. You could perhaps construct a set of binary variables Yk, for k=0,1,2,3,4..... as follows. Yk=0 for women with k children; Yk=1 for women with more than k children; Yk="." for women with fewer than k children. You would then be describing the probability of going from parity k to parity k+1. This would be better for number of children ever born than for number of living children. Logit regression is not well suited for an outcome that is a count. Another possibility would be to use poisson regression or negative binomial regression. There is not a general agreement on a single way to analyze this outcome.
 
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