> At 10:31 PM 1/23/2007, Herb Smith wrote:
> Even if the dropped variables are
> uncorrelated with the regressor that you are interested in, the
> value of the coefficient for that regressor may change since there is
> no set variance for the latent variable being mapped onto the
observed > dichotomy
--- Richard Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a couple of handouts that illustrate this issue:
>
> http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/xsoc73994/l05.pdf
>
> http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/xsoc73994/l06.pdf
>
I too have some a text on this issue wich may be helpful if you are
more comfortable with thinking about logistic regression in terms of
transformed probabilities in stead of latent variables.
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/wp/uh_logistic.html
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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The Netherlands
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