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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 20.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2009 Jul 10;28(15):2054–2076. doi: 10.1002/sim.3615

Table III.

Predictions for response probabilities based on the fitted multinomial logistic model under logit and probit link functions. The predictor is computed from the MLE estimates (Table II). Response categories 1-4 are same as in Table II

Response probabilities
Link Age a Year t y=1 y=2 y=3 y=4
Probit 60 1985 0.697 0.115 0.054 0.126
Logit 0.595 0.149 0.097 0.159
Probit 70 0.516 0.126 0.100 0.250
Logit 0.449 0.159 0.138 0.253
Probit 80 0.322 0.117 0.149 0.403
Logit 0.305 0.153 0.178 0.364
Probit 60 1992 0.769 0.116 0.032 0.077
Logit 0.661 0.150 0.073 0.117
Probit 70 0.613 0.138 0.067 0.174
Logit 0.526 0.168 0.109 0.197
Probit 80 0.423 0.141 0.113 0.314
Logit 0.379 0.172 0.149 0.300
Probit 60 2000 0.828 0.112 0.015 0.039
Logit 0.723 0.146 0.051 0.080
Probit 70 0.706 0.144 0.038 0.105
Logit 0.605 0.173 0.080 0.142
Probit 80 0.536 0.162 0.075 0.219
Logit 0.465 0.188 0.117 0.230