Excel spreadsheet for ordinal logistic regression Does anyone know of an existing implementation of ordinal logistic regression in Excel?
 A: It sounds like your goal is didactic; that you are trying to explain ordinal logistic to some group of people.  I have used Excel for this sort of thing when the topic is much simpler - e.g., crosstabs and chi-square - so that there is some intuition about the formulas.
I don't think that will be the case here.  Even if you could find (or create) an Excel spreadsheet that does this, I think the intermediate steps are so numerous that it will not be clear to any audience that could not follow a more usual explanation of ordinal logistic.
I would use some standard software and give different examples. I've written a talk doing this, using SAS, but it could be done using R or whatever.
A: It's difficult to recommend Excel (which has shown itself to be unreliable for simpler problems than the one posed) when R has well worked-out packages for this.
A: Since you just need it for demonstration, how about using Minitab? It is similarly transparent.
RExcel looks promising too.
Of course, both of these options are somewhat opaque because all of the software is proprietary, closed-source software. You could also try R and Calc, which uses open-source software. (I know that's not what you meant by transparent.)
