Thank you! The UCLA example was excellent (explanations were put into layman's terms)!
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From: Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:06:59 PM
Subject: Re: st: rrr interpretation
Yes, see for instance
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/STAT/stata/output/stata_mlogit_output.htm
Hope this helps,
Maarten
Though I still like the term odds ratio for these (this is an old
discussion):
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-02/msg00085.html and
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-04/msg00678.html
--- Chris Witte <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have performed a multinomial logistic regression, and would like to
> know how to interpret the relative risk ratio with respect to
> CONTINUOUS predictor variables? For example, if I have a continuous
> predictor variable that has a relative risk ratio of 5.3 within a
> comparison group, does this mean that every time this variable
> increases by a single unit of measurement the probability of an
> observational outcome being the comparison group is 5.3 times more
> likely to occur vs. the base outcome group?
>
> I have stata/SE 9.2, and the reference manual doesn't examine this
> issue.
>
> thanks!
>
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