# Responder Analysis: Loser x 4

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**Category:** measurement\
**Tags:** categorization\
**Created:** [January 19, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/responder-analysis-loser-x-4/1262 "2019-01-19T20:36:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![f2harrell](https://discourse.datamethods.org/user_avatar/discourse.datamethods.org/f2harrell/32/165_2.png) [@f2harrell](https://discourse.datamethods.org/u/f2harrell)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 10:11pm UTC](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/responder-analysis-loser-x-4/1262/3 "2019-01-19T22:11:13Z")

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[Much](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103117307746?via%3Dihub) has been written on that. It might go all the way from a minor to a major breach. Why take the chance when we have wonderful ordinal regression models that make no assumptions about inter-category spacings?

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