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| mcap |
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:30 am |
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Dear group:
I am running logistic regression. I have one dichtomous
predictor
(job strain) I am looking at and adjusting for several confouders,
some continuous some categorical (age, gender, hours, etc). .
In this data, I also have a group of 5 specific work tasks that I
would like to adjust for as well so that job strain is independant of
the numbers of specific tasks that subjects performed. These tasks
were sampled as ordinal frequencies (0/day, 1-5/day, 6-10/day 11-15/
day, 16+ per day). They can not be entered in the same model
because
subsets of them are highly related. 3 of them load highly on one
factor and 2 of them load highly on another (none overlap).
Conceptually the factors make sense and none of them measure the same
thing in terms of the tasks invovled. So.....should I just total the
related items and make 2 scales and enter them, or should i use the
factor scores in the regression analysis to adjust for the two
dimensions. I am not particularly interested in interpreting the
coefficients from either the factor scores or the totaled scales.
Thanks!!!! |
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| Ray Koopman |
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:27 am |
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On Mar 27, 7:30 am, mcap <mca...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Quote: Dear group:
I am running logistic regression. I have one dichtomous
predictor
(job strain) I am looking at and adjusting for several confouders,
some continuous some categorical (age, gender, hours, etc). .
In this data, I also have a group of 5 specific work tasks that I
would like to adjust for as well so that job strain is independant of
the numbers of specific tasks that subjects performed. These tasks
were sampled as ordinal frequencies (0/day, 1-5/day, 6-10/day 11-15/
day, 16+ per day). They can not be entered in the same model
because
subsets of them are highly related. 3 of them load highly on one
factor and 2 of them load highly on another (none overlap).
Conceptually the factors make sense and none of them measure the same
thing in terms of the tasks invovled. So.....should I just total the
related items and make 2 scales and enter them, or should i use the
factor scores in the regression analysis to adjust for the two
dimensions. I am not particularly interested in interpreting the
coefficients from either the factor scores or the totaled scales.
Thanks!!!!
I vote for making two scales, but you might try it both ways.
If the difference is negligible then you can take your pick.
If it's substantial then you may need to reconsider the role
that the task data is playing in the regression. E.g., might
it be a surrogate for something that's been left out of the
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