https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Understanding-logistic-regression-outcome-with-multiple/m-p/729760#M227169 <P>I'm using logistic regression to look at a single outcome variable (not multiple variables) that has multiple categories.&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>While I understand the basic idea, I've never used SAS to do this before; how do I interpret the output? I see:</P> <DIV class="branch"> <DIV> <DIV align="center"> <TABLE class="proctitle"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD class="c proctitle">Probabilities modeled are cumulated over the lower Ordered Values.</TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <P>But I'm not sure exactly what that means.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>How can I ensure I'm looking at a specific outcome category? Would it be easier to code several dichotomous dummy variables for each category?</P> Mon, 29 Mar 2021 12:26:29 GMT SAS93 2021-03-29T12:26:29Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Understanding-logistic-regression-outcome-with-multiple/m-p/729760#M227169 <P>I'm using logistic regression to look at a single outcome variable (not multiple variables) that has multiple categories.&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>While I understand the basic idea, I've never used SAS to do this before; how do I interpret the output? I see:</P> <DIV class="branch"> <DIV> <DIV align="center"> <TABLE class="proctitle"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD class="c proctitle">Probabilities modeled are cumulated over the lower Ordered Values.</TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <P>But I'm not sure exactly what that means.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>How can I ensure I'm looking at a specific outcome category? Would it be easier to code several dichotomous dummy variables for each category?</P> Mon, 29 Mar 2021 12:26:29 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Understanding-logistic-regression-outcome-with-multiple/m-p/729760#M227169 SAS93 2021-03-29T12:26:29Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Understanding-logistic-regression-outcome-with-multiple/m-p/729763#M227171 <P>Here's an example:&nbsp;<A href="https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&amp;cdcVersion=9.4_3.4&amp;docsetId=statug&amp;docsetTarget=statug_logistic_examples03.htm&amp;locale=en">https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&amp;cdcVersion=9.4_3.4&amp;docsetId=statug&amp;docsetTarget=statug_logistic_examples03.htm&amp;locale=en</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>You can see if you scroll down to Output 73.6.5 what the cumulative probabilities look like for this data.</P> Mon, 29 Mar 2021 12:38:52 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Understanding-logistic-regression-outcome-with-multiple/m-p/729763#M227171 PaigeMiller 2021-03-29T12:38:52Z