On Apr 20, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Noah Silverman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm calculating a conditional logit on some data stratified by group.
> My understanding was that a conditional logit by definition returns a
> value between 0 and 1 a a probability. Can anyone suggest why I'm
> seeing results outside of the {0,1} range??
Probably because you did not read the help page for the function
predict.coxph. Pay special attention to the type argument.
"type=c("lp", "risk", "expected",
"terms")"
>
> The call in R is:
>
> m <- clogit(score ~ val_1 + val_2 + strata(group), data=data)
>
> Then
>
> prediction <- predict(m,newdata)
I do not see that you have defined any newdata.
>
>
> A sample of the data with resulting predictive values is:
> group score val_1 val_2 prediction
> 1 2009-01-04_1 1 0.5913962 -1.121589 1.62455210
> 2 2009-01-04_1 1 0.6175472 -3.249820 -0.20093346
> 3 2009-01-04_1 1 0.5439640 -2.424501 0.46651849
> 4 2009-01-04_1 0 0.3745209 -2.477424 0.31263855
> 5 2009-01-04_1 0 0.6329855 -3.424174 -0.34200448
> 6 2009-01-04_1 0 0.4571999 -2.770247 0.11190788
> 7 2009-01-04_1 0 0.3822623 -2.259422 0.50627534
> 8 2009-01-04_1 0 0.2605742 -4.424806 -1.44566070
> 9 2009-01-04_1 0 0.4449604 -2.357060 0.46174993
> 10 2009-01-04_1 0 0.6595178 -2.246518 0.69427842
> 11 2009-01-04_1 0 0.5260032 -2.977887 -0.02393871
By default (which is what you have implicitly chosen) you are
requesting "lp" = linear predictors rather than "risk".
--
David.>
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