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这是手册上解释:The estimated cutpoints tell us how to interpret the score. For a foreign car, the probability of
a poor record is the probability that 1.46+u
j 2.77, or equivalently,u
j 4.23. Making this
calculation requires familiarity with the logistic distribution: the probability is 1=(1+e
4:23
) =0.014.
On the other hand, for domestic cars, the probability of a poor record is the probabilityu
j 2.77,
which is 0.059.
This, it seems to us, is a far more reasonable prediction than we would have made based on
the table alone. The table showed that 2 of 45 domestic cars had poor records, whereas 1 of 21
foreign cars had poor records — corresponding to probabilities 2=45=0.044 and 1=21=0.048. The
predictions from our model imposed a smoothness assumption — foreign cars should not, overall,
have better repair records without the difference revealing itself in each category. In our data, the
fractions of foreign and domestic cars in the poor category are virtually identical only because of the
randomness associated with small samples.
Thus if we were asked to predict the true fractions of foreign and domestic cars that would be
classified in the various categories, we would choose the numbers implied by the ordered logit model:
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