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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.

Choice model

IIA is a statistical, not counterfactual, assumption

1 minute read

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I again found myself pondering the meaning of the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) assumption for multinomial logit models. The IIA assumption is often said to imply that given two options in the outcome, removing a third option would not change the relative probability of the first two options. This implication reads very counterfactual: under IIA, counterfactually designing a voting regime or a survey questionnaire excluding an option shouldn’t change the relative probability.

IIA

IIA is a statistical, not counterfactual, assumption

1 minute read

Published:

I again found myself pondering the meaning of the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) assumption for multinomial logit models. The IIA assumption is often said to imply that given two options in the outcome, removing a third option would not change the relative probability of the first two options. This implication reads very counterfactual: under IIA, counterfactually designing a voting regime or a survey questionnaire excluding an option shouldn’t change the relative probability.

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

IIA is a statistical, not counterfactual, assumption

1 minute read

Published:

I again found myself pondering the meaning of the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) assumption for multinomial logit models. The IIA assumption is often said to imply that given two options in the outcome, removing a third option would not change the relative probability of the first two options. This implication reads very counterfactual: under IIA, counterfactually designing a voting regime or a survey questionnaire excluding an option shouldn’t change the relative probability.

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.

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.

Multinomial logit

IIA is a statistical, not counterfactual, assumption

1 minute read

Published:

I again found myself pondering the meaning of the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) assumption for multinomial logit models. The IIA assumption is often said to imply that given two options in the outcome, removing a third option would not change the relative probability of the first two options. This implication reads very counterfactual: under IIA, counterfactually designing a voting regime or a survey questionnaire excluding an option shouldn’t change the relative probability.

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.