I am running a logistic regression analysis on a categorical variable adjusting another categorical variable. At the same time, I also wanted to run interaction term. When I ran the interaction term, I did not get odds ration estimates! I am confused

[Harry_md]

What could go wrong here? Thank you so much. Truly appreciate the response.

[Rick_SAS]

Could you post your code?  (And data too, if possible.)

[KlaasF]

Nothing goes wrong but SAS does not output OR's when interaction terms are included in the model.

If the interaction term is significant you may (must) present stratum specific OR's and you can get those by the ESTIMATE statement.

(If the interaction term is not significant, you remove it from the model again and will get the OR's you need).

Simple(st) example:

PROC LOGISTIC DATA=one DESCENDING;

  CLASS e f / PARAM=REF REF=FIRST;

  MODEL d = e f e*f;

  ESTIMATE 'OR for E in stratum F=1' e 1 e*f 1/EXP;

  ESTIMATE 'OR for E in stratum F=0' e 1 e*f 0/EXP; * or just e 1;

  ESTIMATE 'OR for F in stratum E=1' f 1 e*f 1/EXP;

  ESTIMATE 'OR for F in stratum E=0' f 1 e*f 0/EXP; * or just f 1;

RUN;

Hope this helps.

k

[JohnW_]

To elaborate further, the reason that this is happening is that without an interaction term, the odds ratio is constant for a variable.  When adding an interaction, the odds ratio changes depending on the values of the interacted variables.  So you need to tell SAS the values of the interacted variables where you want an odds ratio estimate.

[ballardw]

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