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PROBLEMS 241<br />

7.17 For a multiway contingency table, when is a logistic model more appropriate<br />

than a loglinear model, and when is a loglinear model more appropriate?<br />

7.18 For a three-way table, consider the independence graph,<br />

X ——– Z Y<br />

a. Write the corresponding loglinear model.<br />

b. Which, if any, pairs of variables are conditionally independent?<br />

c. If Y is a binary response, what is the corresponding logistic model?<br />

d. Which pairs of variables have the same marginal association as their<br />

conditional association?<br />

7.19 Consider loglinear model (WXZ,WYZ).<br />

a. Draw its independence graph, and identify variables that are conditionally<br />

independent.<br />

b. Explain why this is the most general loglinear model for a four-way table<br />

for which X and Y are conditionally independent.<br />

7.20 For a four-way table, are X and Y independent, given Z alone, for model<br />

(a) (WX, XZ, YZ, WZ), (b) (WX, XZ, YZ, WY)?<br />

7.21 Refer <strong>to</strong> Problem 7.13 with Table 7.25.<br />

a. Show that model (CE,CH,CL,EH,EL,HL) fits well. Show that model<br />

(CEH,CEL,CHL,EHL) also fits well but does not provide a significant<br />

improvement. Beginning with (CE,CH,CL,EH,EL,HL), show that<br />

backward elimination yields (CE,CL,EH,HL). Interpret its fit.<br />

b. Based on the independence graph for (CE,CL,EH,HL), show that:<br />

(i) every path between C and H involves a variable in {E,L}; (ii) collapsing<br />

over H , one obtains the same associations between C and E and<br />

between C and L, and collapsing over C, one obtains the same associations<br />

between H and E and between H and L; (iii) the conditional independence<br />

patterns between C and H and between E and L are not collapsible.<br />

7.22 Consider model (AC,AM,CM,AG,AR,GM,GR) for the drug use data in<br />

Section 7.4.5.<br />

a. Explain why the AM conditional odds ratio is unchanged by collapsing<br />

over race, but it is not unchanged by collapsing over gender.<br />

b. Suppose we remove the GM term. Construct the independence graph, and<br />

show that {G, R} are separated from {C, M} by A.<br />

c. For the model in (b), explain why all conditional associations among A,<br />

C, and M are identical <strong>to</strong> those in model (AC, AM, CM), collapsing over<br />

G and R.

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