Logistic interaction as a ratio of odds ratios
ID: logistic-interaction-as-a-ratio-of-odds-ratios
For binary predictors , a logistic regression with linear predictor has conditional odds ratios at and at . Their ratio is . The same interaction can be computed from the four cell logit link values as . Independent positive event and nonevent counts in each cell give an estimated variance for this contrast equal to the sum of all eight reciprocal counts. An interaction on the odds ratio scale is not an interaction on the absolute-risk scale.
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