Date:         Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:29:24 +0530
Reply-To:     Praveen <ipkrishna@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Praveen <ipkrishna@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Combining categories and estimating Odds Ratio
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Hi Listers,

I am faced with problem where I have the customer survey responses. I am
trying to build up an ordinal logistic regression with the 11-point ordered
categories in response variable. Upto this point it works out fine. Now I
want to compare few clubbed categories, i.e.,

New Category "A" = 1,2,3,4,5 combined from original 11-point responses
New Category "B"=6,7,8,9 combined from original 11-point responses
New Category "C"=10,11 combined from original 11-point responses

I did it using running three different logistic regression comparing (A,B),
(B,C) & (A,C) and got the estimates of odds ratio for each combination which
was making a lot of sense to me.

But other guys in my group said clubbing the categories is not a good idea
as it results in loss of information, I completely agree with them. But the
problem is with the technique. None of us know how to get to different
estimates of odds ratios for different combinations mentioned above. I know
we can compute individual probabilities on each observations using ordinal
logistic regression, but I am interested in odds ratio which are
different/relevant for clubbed categories.

It would really help me if someone can guide me through getting my 'desired'
result by using OLR on 11-point dependent variable.

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Regards,
Praveen Krishna

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