Posts tagged: PROC LOGISTIC

PROC LOGISTIC: Reference coding and effect coding

By , April 13, 2010 10:09 am

Description of the problem with effect coding
When you have a categorical independent variable with more than 2 levels, you need to define it with a CLASS statement. In PROC GLM the default coding for this is dummy coding. In PROC LOGISTIC, it’s effect coding. To me, effect coding is quite unnatural.

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PROC LOGISTIC: Traps for the unwary

By , January 8, 2010 9:12 am

This is a talk I’ve given at Northeast SAS Users Group (NESUG) and at  SAS Global Forum (SGF)

PROC LOGISTIC talk from NESUG