Multinomial regression in SPSS

Posted by Ronald McDowell on Aug 19, 2013; 8:14am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Multinomial-regression-in-SPSS-tp5721643.html

Hello

This is a query about running (unordered) Multinomial logistic regression in SPSS.

1. If I run the model using the Analyze>Regression>Multinomial logit option, I'm don't see an option for changing the reference category for any factor/categorical variables, so that the last category is always used as the reference group. I would therefore use this group as the reference group or recode the categorical variable accordingly. Is that correct?

2. Using the Generalized Linear Models Option, if I custom build a multinomial model using the cumulative logit link function, I end up with an ordered logistic model, where as I want an unordered multinomial model. Can this be built using the GLM menu?

Many thanks

Ron