Analyzing Ordinal Data in SAS using the Multinomial Distribution.

This post is an extension of an earlier introductory post I made on using Generalized Linear Mixed Models in SAS.

Below, I will use a dataset containing the diarrhea scores of pigs to show how to analyze ordinal data. Before doing so, one has to consider that the assessment of diarrhea scores is done in a subjective way, using raters, who rate diarrhea on a score from 0 to 3 in steps of 1 — 0,1,2,3. A nine equals the …

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