Re: [R] odds ratio per standard deviation

2013-06-13 Thread David Winsemius
On Jun 12, 2013, at 4:58 PM, vinhnguyen04x wrote: L. Snow, Ted, Many thanks, I am sorry to made a question without context. I use three parameters of facial temperature, heart rate, and respiratory rate to distinguish infectious patients from healthy subjects. So I use logistic

Re: [R] odds ratio per standard deviation

2013-06-13 Thread vinhnguyen04x
Thanks, David, I appreciate your help. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/odds-ratio-per-standard-deviation-tp4669315p4669501.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing

Re: [R] odds ratio per standard deviation

2013-06-12 Thread Greg Snow
Without context this is a shot in the dark, but my guess is this is referring to something like a logistic regression where the odds ratio (exponential of the coefficient) refers to the change in odds for the outcome for a 1 unit change in x. Now often a 1 unit change in x is very meaningful, but

Re: [R] odds ratio per standard deviation

2013-06-12 Thread Ted Harding
[Replies transposed so as to achieve bottom-posting ... ] On 12-Jun-2013 14:53:02 Greg Snow wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:38 PM, vinhnguyen04x imvi...@yahoo.com.vn wrote: Hi all i have a question: why and when do we use odds ratio per standard deviation instead of odds ratio? --

Re: [R] odds ratio per standard deviation

2013-06-12 Thread vinhnguyen04x
L. Snow, Ted, Many thanks, I am sorry to made a question without context. I use three parameters of facial temperature, heart rate, and respiratory rate to distinguish infectious patients from healthy subjects. So I use logistic regression to generate a classification model and calculate the odds

[R] odds ratio per standard deviation

2013-06-11 Thread vinhnguyen04x
Hi all i have a question: why and when do we use odds ratio per standard deviation instead of odds ratio? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/odds-ratio-per-standard-deviation-tp4669315.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.