Re: st: logistic regression question

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 03:53 PM 6/16/2007, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a binary  outcome, Y , with the number of cases Y=1 is equal 
> to 230 and for  Y=0, I have 2100 individuals.
>
> I want to analyse the relationship between Y and some continuous and 
> discrete covariates.
>
> I would like to know  if the standard logistic regression is 
> appropriate for this problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sami
I would think so, although there is always the possibility that some 
other link function (probit, cloglog) or other alternative technique 
(scobit) might be better.  It seems that the percentage of 1s is 
large enough that you don't need rare events logit.  Still, you might 
check out Gary King's -relogit- program and his papers on it.  The 
program and papers can be found at

http://gking.harvard.edu/stats.shtml


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