Re: st: Nominal or ordinal?

[Richard Williams <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com>]

Looks like an ordinal variable to me.  It is always possible that the 
assumptions of the ordered logit model will be violated with your 
data, but if it works an ordinal model will be much more parsimonious 
than an mlogit model. If not that familiar with ordinal regression, 
you may wish to check out Long and Freese's book:

http://www.stata.com/bookstore/regmodcdvs.html

At 01:59 PM 8/12/2010, Polis, Chelsea B. wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I am working with a dependent variable that has the following four 
> potential responses: (1) Not Likely, (2) Slightly Likely,
> (3) Quite Likely, (4) Extremely Likely.
>
> A colleague thinks this is an ordinal variable which should be 
> analyzed using ordered logit regression.  My sense was that
> this is a nominal variable, and should be analyzed using multinomial 
> regression - since we cannot know if the levels are
> equally spaced in people's minds.
>
> My apologies for what is probably a very simplistic question, but 
> I've searched Statalist and online, and I still am not
> entirely certain.  I would greatly appreciate input on this question.
>
> Thanks,
> Chelsea
>
>
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