Transcription of MULTIPLE REGRESSION WITH CATEGORICAL DATA
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ISexMerit PayiSexMerit OF POLITICAL SCIENCEANDINTERNATIONAL RELATIONSPosc/Uapp 816 MULTIPLE REGRESSION WITH CATEGORICAL DATA REGRESSION with CATEGORICAL : Agresti and Finlay Statistical Methods in the Social Sciences, 3rdedition, Chapter 12, pages 449 to INDEPENDENT : what does sex discrimination in employment mean and how can it bemeasured? answer these questions consider these artificial data pertaining to employmentrecords of a sample of employees of Ace : here the dependent variable , Y, is merit pay increase measured in percentand the "independent" variable is sex which is quite obviously a nominal orcategorical goal is to use CATEGORICAL variables to explain variation in Y, a quantitativedependent need to convert the CATEGORICAL variable gender into a form that makessense to REGRESSION way to represent a CATEGORICAL variable is to code the ca
categorical variable. D. Our goal is to use categorical variables to explain variation in Y, a quantitative dependent variable. 1. We need to convert the categorical variable gender into a form that “makes sense” to regression analysis. E. One way to represent a categorical variable is to code the categories 0 and 1 as follows:
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