Standardized vs. Adjusted Standardized Residuals for Statistically Significant Chi-Square

[Bruce Weaver]

Todd, when starting a new topic, please do not piggy-back on an old thread -- it louses up the indexing in the Nabble archive.  Your question gets buried in a thread on some completely different topic, and people who might otherwise offer you some help may fail to see it.

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Todd Alan Zoblotsky (tzbltsky) wrote

When trying to determine which groups are contributing to a significant overall chi-square test (for contingency tables that are larger than 2x2), I have read about using the Standardized residuals (i.e., Standardized residual values > 2).  However, SPSS also has the option to give Adjusted Standardized residuals.  I have tried reading up on the Adjusted Standardized residuals, but am not clear on when (of if) it is more appropriate to use the Standardized or Adjusted Standardized residuals to determine differences between groups.  Any clarification or guidance the group can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You,

Todd Zoblotsky

[Art Kendall]

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On 1/22/2013 5:16 PM, Bruce Weaver wrote:

Todd, when starting a new topic, please do not piggy-back on an old thread --
it louses up the indexing in the Nabble archive.  Your question gets buried
in a thread on some completely different topic, and people who might
otherwise offer you some help may fail to see it.

Here is your question again in a new thread.


Todd Alan Zoblotsky (tzbltsky) wrote

When trying to determine which groups are contributing to a significant
overall chi-square test (for contingency tables that are larger than 2x2),
I have read about using the Standardized residuals (i.e., Standardized
residual values > 2).  However, SPSS also has the option to give Adjusted
Standardized residuals.  I have tried reading up on the Adjusted
Standardized residuals, but am not clear on when (of if) it is more
appropriate to use the Standardized or Adjusted Standardized residuals to
determine differences between groups.  Any clarification or guidance the
group can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You,

Todd Zoblotsky

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[marc]

Hi,

I don't think there were any responses to this query and so hoping my post will at least make it to the author.  I'm afraid I'm not able to answer your question well just yet (perhaps you've already found the answers!?), but would like to get other's understanding of 'adjusted standardised residuals' and how these differ to standardised residuals, which i've also seen adjusted residuals.  I've been asked to provide ASRs but basic google searches yield little clear on these specifically, compared to many hits on ARs and SRs...  

any thoughts and guidance on this would be great!

cheers!

[Mark Miller]

The names are misleading. 

Standardized residuals aren't standardized in the same sense that zscores are.

For a zscore , the deviation (residual) is divided by the standard deviation, i.e.  (x-xbar) / sd(x)

For a "standardized residual", the deviation is divided by the square root of the expectation

For an adjusted standardized residual, the deviation is adjusted by a quantity equivalent to the std dev

I would always recommend the adjusted variant.

Quoting from  http://www.geneseo.edu/~bearden/socl211/chisquareweb/chisquare.html

Standardized Residuals

Standardized residuals indicate the importance of the cell to the ultimate chi-square value. The standardized residuals are a kind of z-score indicating how many standard deviations above or below the expected count a particular observed count is. By comparing these standardized residuals you can easily identify the particular cells that contribute most to chi-square and will help you understand the association in the table.

Adjusted Residuals

Adjusted residuals are a related and more useful way to do the same thing.  Unlike the standardized residual, the adjusted residual takes into account the overall size of the sample and gives a fairer indication of how far off the observed count is from the expected count.

... Mark Miller

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 10:15 PM, marc <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

I don't think there were any responses to this query and so hoping my post
will at least make it to the author.  I'm afraid I'm not able to answer your
question well just yet (perhaps you've already found the answers!?), but
would like to get other's understanding of 'adjusted standardised residuals'
and how these differ to standardised residuals, which i've also seen
adjusted residuals.  I've been asked to provide ASRs but basic google
searches yield little clear on these specifically, compared to many hits on
ARs and SRs...

any thoughts and guidance on this would be great!

cheers!



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[Ryan]

All,

Where is the original post?

Ryan

On Jan 22, 2013 5:16 PM, "Bruce Weaver" <[hidden email]> wrote:

Todd, when starting a new topic, please do not piggy-back on an old thread --
it louses up the indexing in the Nabble archive.  Your question gets buried
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otherwise offer you some help may fail to see it.

Here is your question again in a new thread.


Todd Alan Zoblotsky (tzbltsky) wrote
> When trying to determine which groups are contributing to a significant
> overall chi-square test (for contingency tables that are larger than 2x2),
> I have read about using the Standardized residuals (i.e., Standardized
> residual values > 2).  However, SPSS also has the option to give Adjusted
> Standardized residuals.  I have tried reading up on the Adjusted
> Standardized residuals, but am not clear on when (of if) it is more
> appropriate to use the Standardized or Adjusted Standardized residuals to
> determine differences between groups.  Any clarification or guidance the
> group can provide would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank You,
>
> Todd Zoblotsky





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[marc]

Many thanks for this Mark, very helpful.  The link that you posted is the one that i had previously found, supporting my sense that there's not a lot out there on this!

One simple query then: 'adjusted standardised residuals' and 'adjusted residuals' are the same thing?  The 'standardised' is redundant/assumed and so sometimes included, other times not?

[Rich Ulrich]

Nice summary formulas.

When you recognize that the "expected" is the variance of a Poisson
count, then you see that the Standardized Residual is *exactly* a z-score,
to the extent that you can assume that the count is Poisson (mainly, being
a small part of the total).  In any case, the formula reveals that the SR reflects
the contribution of the cell to the total chi-squared for the contingency table,
when you write that as  Sum ( ((O-E)**2 )/E ) .

I occasionally glanced as these to find the oddest cell in a table, but I can't
say that I ever recommended either of them in publishing results.

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Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 17:17:57 -0700
From: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Standardized vs. Adjusted Standardized Residuals for Statistically Significant Chi-Square
To: [hidden email]

The names are misleading. 

Standardized residuals aren't standardized in the same sense that zscores are.

For a zscore , the deviation (residual) is divided by the standard deviation, i.e.  (x-xbar) / sd(x)

For a "standardized residual", the deviation is divided by the square root of the expectation

For an adjusted standardized residual, the deviation is adjusted by a quantity equivalent to the std dev

I would always recommend the adjusted variant.

Quoting from  http://www.geneseo.edu/~bearden/socl211/chisquareweb/chisquare.html

Standardized Residuals

Standardized residuals indicate the importance of the cell to the ultimate chi-square value. The standardized residuals are a kind of z-score indicating how many standard deviations above or below the expected count a particular observed count is. By comparing these standardized residuals you can easily identify the particular cells that contribute most to chi-square and will help you understand the association in the table.

<img src="http&#58;//www.geneseo.edu/&#126;bearden/socl211/chisquareweb/stdresid.png" alt="observed minus expected divided by the square root of the expected" style="" height="58" width="356">

Adjusted Residuals

Adjusted residuals are a related and more useful way to do the same thing.  Unlike the standardized residual, the adjusted residual takes into account the overall size of the sample and gives a fairer indication of how far off the observed count is from the expected count.

<img src="http&#58;//www.geneseo.edu/&#126;bearden/socl211/chisquareweb/adjresid.png" alt="observed minus expected divided by the square root of the expected" style="" height="52" width="543">

... Mark Miller

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 10:15 PM, marc <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

I don't think there were any responses to this query and so hoping my post
will at least make it to the author.  I'm afraid I'm not able to answer your
question well just yet (perhaps you've already found the answers!?), but
would like to get other's understanding of 'adjusted standardised residuals'
and how these differ to standardised residuals, which i've also seen
adjusted residuals.  I've been asked to provide ASRs but basic google
searches yield little clear on these specifically, compared to many hits on
ARs and SRs...

any thoughts and guidance on this would be great!

cheers!

[Bruce Weaver]

The original post was of the "reply-and-change-the-subject-line" variety, which meant it got buried in a different thread (Subject: 95% significance test) in the Nabble archive.  You can see the original here:

http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/95-significance-test-td5717562.html#a5717588

And you can see my repost of it under a new thread here:

http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/Standardized-vs-Adjusted-Standardized-Residuals-for-Statistically-Significant-Chi-Square-td5717593.html

Ryan Black wrote

All,

Where is the original post?

Ryan
On Jan 22, 2013 5:16 PM, "Bruce Weaver" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Todd, when starting a new topic, please do not piggy-back on an old thread
> --
> it louses up the indexing in the Nabble archive.  Your question gets buried
> in a thread on some completely different topic, and people who might
> otherwise offer you some help may fail to see it.
>
> Here is your question again in a new thread.
>
>
> Todd Alan Zoblotsky (tzbltsky) wrote
> > When trying to determine which groups are contributing to a significant
> > overall chi-square test (for contingency tables that are larger than
> 2x2),
> > I have read about using the Standardized residuals (i.e., Standardized
> > residual values > 2).  However, SPSS also has the option to give Adjusted
> > Standardized residuals.  I have tried reading up on the Adjusted
> > Standardized residuals, but am not clear on when (of if) it is more
> > appropriate to use the Standardized or Adjusted Standardized residuals to
> > determine differences between groups.  Any clarification or guidance the
> > group can provide would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thank You,
> >
> > Todd Zoblotsky
>
>
>
>
>
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[Mark Miller]

Marc,

They are NOT the same.

 

 You can transform a residual dividing it by the square root of the 

expected value. This produces the standardized residual, also 

called Pearson residual. In turn, a Pearson residual can be divided by 

the standard deviation of all residuals, thus obtaining the adjusted 

residual. 

The great usefulness of adjusted residuals is that they are standardized 

values, so it is legitimate to compare residuals from different cells. 

Furthermore, adjusted residuals follow a standard normal frequency 

distribution (with mean zero and standard deviation one), so we can use 

a computer program or a probabilities table to come up with the 

probability that a certain residual’s value is not due to chance. In a 

normal distribution, 95% of the values are roughly within the mean plus 

or minus two standard deviations. So, if the adjusted residual’s value 

is greater than two or lesser than minus two, the probability that this 

value is due to chance will be less than 5% and we’ll be able to say 

that the residual is significant 

Adjusted residuals allow us to assess the significance in each cell but, 

if we want to know if there’s a global association between variables we 

have to sum up all adjusted residuals. This is because the sum of 

adjusted residuals also follow a frequency distribution, but this time 

it’s a chi-square frequency distribution with (rows-1) x (columns-1) 

degrees of freedom. 

As far as I know, ADJUSTED residuals were introduced and recommended 

by Shelby J. Haberman in or around 1972 (and thereafter), 

but they have been recommended by many others over the years.

Look at contingency table literature for examples.

The list of possible references is exceedingly long.

Haberman is still an active contributor to this literature (now at ETS).

Cites to Haberman's early work might include

1970: The general log-linear model. Shelby J. Haberman.

    Ph.D. Dissertation, Univerity of chicago.

1972: Algorithm AS 51: Log-Linear Fit for Contingency Tables, S. J. Haberman

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics)

Vol. 21, No. 2 (1972), pp. 218-225

1974: The Analysis of Frequency Data. by Shelby J. Haberman;

Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

... Mark Miller

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:54 PM, marc <[hidden email]> wrote:

Many thanks for this Mark, very helpful.  The link that you posted is the one
that i had previously found, supporting my sense that there's not a lot out
there on this!

One simple query then: 'adjusted standardised residuals' and 'adjusted
residuals' are the same thing?  The 'standardised' is redundant/assumed and
so sometimes included, other times not?



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[marc]

Hi Marc,

Thanks for this - really great to have this extra clarification and background info.

I think my last query wasn't clearly phrased.  What i meant was there are just TWO kinds of residual (at least under discussion here) used with Chi Square: 1. Standardised Residuals and 2. Adjusted Residuals.  BUT the latter are sometimes referred to as Adjusted Standardised Residuals, right? Or are Adjusted Standardised Residuals derived differently?  I hope you don't mind me belabouring this, just want to be clear.

Best,

Marc