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6.2 CUMULATIVE LOGIT MODELS FOR ORDINAL RESPONSES 181<br />

Figure 6.2. Depiction of cumulative probabilities in proportional odds model.<br />

others shifted <strong>to</strong> the right or shifted <strong>to</strong> the left. As in logistic regression, the size of<br />

|β| determines how quickly the curves climb or drop. At any fixed x value, the curves<br />

have the same ordering as the cumulative probabilities, the one for P(Y ≤ 1) being<br />

lowest.<br />

Figure 6.2 has β>0. Figure 6.3 shows corresponding curves for the category<br />

probabilities, P(Y = j) = P(Y ≤ j)− P(Y ≤ j − 1).Asx increases, the response<br />

on Y is more likely <strong>to</strong> fall at the low end of the ordinal scale. When β

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