Regression · Ordinal outcomes
Ordered Logit and Probit
How can a model respect category order without treating the category codes as measurements?
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The big picture: Ordered Logit and Probit
How can a model use the ordering of a categorical outcome?
Why a policy analyst should care
Self-rated health and severity categories contain meaningful order but not known equal spacing; ordered models use that ranking without pretending the category codes are continuous measurements.
Follow the idea from the opening question to a practical decision. These are the conceptual moves this module will develop:
1 Question Use the order without inventing equal distances
2 Explore Move a patient across a latent health scale
3 Formalize Cutpoints turn a latent score into categories
4 Transfer Audit the order, link, and population
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