see CATREG where you can see the effects of different measurement assumptions.

Art Kendall Social Research Consultants Eins Bernardo wrote: > Hi all, > > One of the independent variables in my logistic regression is > "education of mother" which is ordinal with values 1 to 4 (1 being > elementary and 4 being postgraduate). Can I consider it as continuous > rather than categorical so that my interpretation of the exp(B) for > example would be the log odds for Y=1 (my dependent) is higher when > the mother has more eduation? > > Eins > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Fast, Ad-free, Unlimited Storage - Yahoo! Mail allows you to have it > all. <http://ph.mail.yahoo.com>