Dear colleagues, I'm trying to fit a multinomial logistic regression for an ordinal variable. I see in the help pages for multinom in nnet that one should scale the predictors from 0-1. Is that really necessary? Also: can anyone clarify what the difference between alternative-specific and individual specific variables are? Yours, Simon Kiss l ********************************* Simon J. Kiss, PhD Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University 73 George Street Brantford, Ontario, Canada N3T 2C9 Cell: +1 905 746 7606