## which statistical tool is appropriate for my regression

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# which statistical tool is appropriate for my regression

Hello,

I have a question and I will be grateful if you can help me,

I am running a regression which I have one dependent variable (varies from 1 to 6) and several independent variable, which some of them are dummy variables(like gender) and some of them are metric variables like age, and I have some other variables like education which I ranked them .I am using SAS for my research.would you please help me which statistical tool is appropriate for my regression?

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## Re: which statistical tool is appropriate for my regression

There are probably several techniques that might work here, depending on what assumptions you want to make about errors and objective function, etc.

You might want to try ordinal logistic regression, since your dependent variables are really 6 different categories. See PROC LOGISTIC

I might also go with PROC PLS, as your independent variables are most likely correlated with one another. There's also a Logistic version of PLS in the literature, although I think you'd have to code that yourself, as far as I know it doesn't exist in SAS.

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## Re: which statistical tool is appropriate for my regression

my dependent ranked from 1 to 6 ( I mean it is not 6 different categories). my dependent variable is actually the likelihood of one action, it means that when is 6 is more likely to happen than when is 1.do you think still I can use PROC LOGISTIC?

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## Re: which statistical tool is appropriate for my regression

Based upon my understanding of your description, and my understanding of ordinal logistic regression, I would the answer is YES! PROC LOGISTIC still applies here.

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## Re: which statistical tool is appropriate for my regression

Thank you so much,

I will check the link and will come back again if I have question.

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## Re: which statistical tool is appropriate for my regression

Hello,

I used proc logistic for my regression, but it is just consider 3 levels of my dependent variable,(as I mentioned before it has 6 level).

Thanks a lot.

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## Re: which statistical tool is appropriate for my regression

Look over the example here, but yours is more complex. This is assuming you've done the appropriate univariate modeling and summary already.

SAS/STAT(R) 9.22 User's Guide

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## Re: which statistical tool is appropriate for my regression

Yes, that is a very good introductory example, for a simple ordinal logistic regression.

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## Re: which statistical tool is appropriate for my regression

Hello,

I used proc logistic for my regression, but it is just consider 3 levels of my dependent variable,(as I mentioned before it has 6 level).

Thanks a lot.