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Re: st: compare effect size between dummys and metrics variables in logistic regression
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Re: st: compare effect size between dummys and metrics variables in logistic regression 
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Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:44:56 +0200 
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Dear Michael,
tanks a lot for your help. I guessed as much.
Joerg
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Am 27.09.2010 09:21, schrieb Michael N. Mitchell:
Greetings Joerg
  If you were doing an OLS regression, I would say that you could 
report the partial (or semi-partial) correlation associated with each 
of the variables. However, as you note, you are using binary logistic 
regression. While you could technically create z scores for the binary 
variables to try and put them on the same scale as the z-transformed 
variables, those results would not make much sense. You could take the 
z-transformed variables and convert them into 0/1 variables by cutting 
them into two arbitrary groups, but that would not make much sense. My 
thoughts are that there is not much you can do to compare the "apples" 
and "oranges" here in terms of the effect size.
Best regards,
Michael N. Mitchell
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On 2010-09-26 11.23 AM, Jörg Eulenberger wrote:
Dear Statalisters,
a have an more statistical Question. I want to calculate an binary 
logistic regression. I
have all metric variables z-transformed (mean = 0, std=1) to compare 
the effect size
between the independent variable. But I have also dummys in my 
Regressionmodell. What can
i do to compare the effect size of the dummy's with the effect size 
of the metric
independent variables? Or is that completely impossible?
Thanks,
Joerg
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