Why do you need a diagnostic that has properties from the normal?  Logistic 
regression is based on binary (binomial distribution) data, not continuous 
data.  Any transform that forced normality (even just under a given null 
hypothesis) would probably distort any real information that might be gleaned. 

What are you really trying to accomplish?  It is probably easier to address 
that then to do an artificial 'normalization'.

-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.s...@imail.org
801.408.8111


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Chaudhari, Bimal
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 10:10 AM
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: [R] logistic model diagnostics residuals.lrm {design},
> residuals()
> 
> I am interested in a model diagnostic for logistic regression which is
> normally distributed (much like the residuals in linear regression with
> are ~ N(0,variance unknown).
> 
> My understanding is that most (all?) of the residuals returned by
> residuals.lrm {design} either don't have a well defined distribution or
> are distributed as Chi-Square.
> 
> Have I overlooked a residual measure or would it be possible to
> transform one of the residual measures into something reasonably
> 'normal' while retaining information from the residual so I could
> compare between models (obviously I could blom transform any of the
> measures, but then I'd always get a standard normal)?
> 
> Cheers,
> bimal
> 
> Bimal P Chaudhari, MPH
> MD Candidate, 2011
> Boston University
> MS Candidate, 2010
> Washington University in St Louis
> 
> 
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