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I got these results from a logistic regression in R. The data are the proportion of women elected in Uk elections, according to their party.

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As you can see, I used exp() to get rid off of the log function, so these are the odds, not the log odds.

How can I interpret these, since I don't see how I can say that for every 1 unit increase in party, there is an increase in the odds. Are these odd ratios comparing with each other, I mean comparing with the odd ratios for all other parties?

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This isn't really a 'discrete' variable, it's a categorical variable. Only the intercept is the odds of a woman (in the reference level party) being elected. The other coefficients are odds ratios. You multiply those odds ratios times the odds in the intercept to get the odds of a woman in the, say, green party being elected (in that case the odds is .3125, or about 24%).

It may help you to read:

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  • Thanks man. First let me tell you that I consider you a legend haha. Just another silly question: where that 24% comes from? And, just to make sure, R compares every of those values against the reference that is in this case the Conservative Party, which the intercept, right? – Rafael Hernández Salazar Sep 03 '20 at 22:51
  • @RafaelHernándezSalazar, the indicated levels are compared to the reference level. To convert from odds to a probability, you do `o/(1+o)` (see the thread linked in my answer above). – gung - Reinstate Monica Sep 04 '20 at 01:24