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Re: Statistical Question

Posted by Jason McNellis on Aug 08, 2006; 10:36pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Statistical-Question-tp1070190p1070191.html

Great question.  I can't really speak to the statistical aspect--I'm
suspicious it would be violating an assumption regarding structure in the
data.  I can tell you that in a business setting logistic regression is
sometimes applied to a grouping variable (like customer segments).  The way
we do this is build a separate model for each segment.  This is done when we
have prior knowledge that suggests different groups will respond
differently.

Jason





-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Brandon Long
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 3:35 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Statistical Question

This listserv is a great resource, so I was hoping someone might be able
to help me get some clarification on a certain statistical question.  If
you have risk-adjusted a sample of data by certain factors using
logistic regression, is it incorrect to further stratify these results
by some sort of grouping variable?  I do not believe it would be
statistically correct but am having a hard time justifying this.  Am I
wrong?  Any information would be helpful.

Thank you!