Abstract International relations scholars are often interested in nominal dependent variables, and commonly analyze such variables with multinomial logit (MNL) models that treat status quo outcomes (e ...

Logistic regression is a powerful statistical method that is used to model the probability that a set of explanatory (independent or predictor) variables predict data in an outcome (dependent or ...

In a model, such as a logit regression model, we wish to compare the relative importance of two groups of predictors for various objectives. In the example that motivated this work, the model predicts ...