[R] Manually Calculating Odds from POLR Model

John Fox
Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:22:23 -0000

Dear Tate,

If I understand correctly what you're asking, the formulas are on p. 21 of
the paper at
<http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Papers/logit-effect-displays.pdf>.
But why do you want to do this when you can get the fitted probabilities
from predict()?

I hope this helps.
 John

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Tate Avery
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:50 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] Manually Calculating Odds from POLR Model
>
> Hello,
>
> I am using polr(...) to generate a model.  The summary shows
> the coefficients and the intercepts.
>
> For example:
>
>     coefficient for x1 = c1
>     coefficient for x2 = c2
>
>     intercept A|B = i1
>     intercept B|C = i2
>
> I can then run predict(..., type="p") with the model and see
> the odds for each factor.
>
> For example:
>
>       A        B        C
> 1    0.3     0.5      0.2
> 2    0.4     0.1      0.5
>
> What I really want to be able to do is take the 2
> coefficients, the 2 intercepts, the x1 & x2 values and
> manually calculate the probabilities generated by predict().
>
> I have been searching quite extensively for the underlying
> calculations that transform the polr output and the input
> variables into the final output odds.  I have tried a number
> of dead-end roads so far.
>
> So, if anyone has any information on how to do this or where
> I can find out, I would be extremely grateful.
>
> Thank you for your time,
> Tate Avery
>
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