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Binary outcome

Logit models don’t make mistakes, people do

4 minute read

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I recently found myself reading the large methodological literature on logit models in sociology again. And I think I may have found a way to more intuivtively explain certain things about logit models. I’ll try some ideas here to see if they make sense to people.

Margin call: Is odds ratio really that good?

3 minute read

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It has been commonly argued in sociology that odds ratio—as a measure of association between categorical variables—is appealing, because of its “margin-free” property. This has always baffled me, so I decided to articulate my bafflement here as a sanity check.

Causal Inference

Horvitz–Thompson and Weighted Least Squares

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Inverse probability weighting (IPW) is a popular tool for estimating the average treatment effect (ATE) of a binary variable under the conditional ignorability assumption. There are multiple variants of IPW. Particularly, I used to be intrigued by the relationship between the so-called Horvitz–Thompson (HT) estimator and the Weighted Least Squares (WLS) estimator, both of which implement IPW.

Logit model

Logit models don’t make mistakes, people do

4 minute read

Published:

I recently found myself reading the large methodological literature on logit models in sociology again. And I think I may have found a way to more intuivtively explain certain things about logit models. I’ll try some ideas here to see if they make sense to people.

Methodology

Logit models don’t make mistakes, people do

4 minute read

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I recently found myself reading the large methodological literature on logit models in sociology again. And I think I may have found a way to more intuivtively explain certain things about logit models. I’ll try some ideas here to see if they make sense to people.

Margin call: Is odds ratio really that good?

3 minute read

Published:

It has been commonly argued in sociology that odds ratio—as a measure of association between categorical variables—is appealing, because of its “margin-free” property. This has always baffled me, so I decided to articulate my bafflement here as a sanity check.

Horvitz–Thompson and Weighted Least Squares

4 minute read

Published:

Inverse probability weighting (IPW) is a popular tool for estimating the average treatment effect (ATE) of a binary variable under the conditional ignorability assumption. There are multiple variants of IPW. Particularly, I used to be intrigued by the relationship between the so-called Horvitz–Thompson (HT) estimator and the Weighted Least Squares (WLS) estimator, both of which implement IPW.

Odds ratio

Logit models don’t make mistakes, people do

4 minute read

Published:

I recently found myself reading the large methodological literature on logit models in sociology again. And I think I may have found a way to more intuivtively explain certain things about logit models. I’ll try some ideas here to see if they make sense to people.

Margin call: Is odds ratio really that good?

3 minute read

Published:

It has been commonly argued in sociology that odds ratio—as a measure of association between categorical variables—is appealing, because of its “margin-free” property. This has always baffled me, so I decided to articulate my bafflement here as a sanity check.

Weighting

Horvitz–Thompson and Weighted Least Squares

4 minute read

Published:

Inverse probability weighting (IPW) is a popular tool for estimating the average treatment effect (ATE) of a binary variable under the conditional ignorability assumption. There are multiple variants of IPW. Particularly, I used to be intrigued by the relationship between the so-called Horvitz–Thompson (HT) estimator and the Weighted Least Squares (WLS) estimator, both of which implement IPW.