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About logistic regression

3 messages · Silvano, Eik Vettorazzi, David Winsemius

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Hi,

I have a dichotomous variable (Q1) whose answers are Yes or 
No.
Also I have 2 categorical explanatory variables (V1 and V2) 
with two levels each.

I used logistic regression to determine whether there is an 
effect of V1, V2 or an interaction between them.

I used the R and SAS, just for the conference. It happens 
that there is disagreement about the effect of the 
explanatory variables between the two softwares.

R:
 q1 = glm(Q1~grau*genero, family=binomial, data=dados)
 anova(q1, test="Chisq")

            Df Deviance Resid. Df Resid. Dev P(>|Chi|)
NULL                          202     277.82
grau         1   4.3537       201     273.46   0.03693 *
genero       1   1.4775       200     271.99   0.22417
grau:genero  1   0.0001       199     271.99   0.99031

SAS:
proc logistic data=psico;
class genero (param=ref ref='0') grau (param=ref ref='0');
model Q1 = grau genero grau*genero / expb;
run;
                                   Type 3 Analysis of 
Effects
                                                      Wald
                         Effect           DF    Chi-Square 
Pr > ChiSq

                         grau              1        1.6835 
0.1945
                         genero            1        0.7789 
0.3775
                         genero*grau       1        0.0002 
0.9902

The parameters estimates are the same for both.
Coefficients:
             Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)
(Intercept)  0.191055   0.310016   0.616    0.538
grau         0.562717   0.433615   1.298    0.194
genero      -0.355358   0.402650  -0.883    0.377
grau:genero  0.007052   0.580837   0.012    0.990

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

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Silvano Cesar da Costa
Departamento de Estat?stica
Universidade Estadual de Londrina
Fone: 3371-4346
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Hi Silvano,
this is FAQ 7.17 
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-does-the-output-from-anova_0028_0029-depend-on-the-order-of-factors-in-the-model_003f

hth.

Silvano schrieb:

  
    
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On Apr 1, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Silvano wrote:

            
Not really. You are incorrectly interpreting what SAS is reporting to  
you, although in your defense I think it is SAS's fault, and that what  
SA is reproting is nonsensical.
I'm having difficulty figuring our how "type 3" analysis makes any  
sense in this situation. Remember that "type 3" analysis supposedly  
gives you an estimate for a covariate that is independent of its order  
of entry. How could you sensible be adding either of those "main  
effects" terms to a model that already had the interaction and the  
other covariate in it already? The nested model perspective offered by  
R seems much more sensible.