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I mistyped in stata "logistic a" where a is a binary variable and to my surprise it actually ran.

What is a logistic regression doing when it's running without any independent variables?

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    $\begingroup$ It might be just fitting the null model (intercept only, log-odds of being in the class of interest). To verify, please edit your question to show the class breakdown of your binary variable a and the output from the command you ran. $\endgroup$ – EdM Jan 3 '20 at 16:50
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    $\begingroup$ Edited my answer, does this suffice? $\endgroup$ – Paze Jan 3 '20 at 16:54
  • $\begingroup$ Incidentally, you can do this with regress, ologit, etc. In all cases you get an intercept only model: a heavy-handed way to characterize the mean/proportion, etc. of the dependent variable. Contrast mean a with regress a with Odds/(Odds+1) from your output above. $\endgroup$ – Alexis Jan 4 '20 at 18:35
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It's an intercept-only model. Stata's notation _cons is the intercept term. With no other regressors, the odds is $p/(1-p)$ where $p$ is the proportion with positive response.

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  • $\begingroup$ I understand what the intercept and the constant is, but I'm still not sure if this actually tells me anything about my variable? $\endgroup$ – Paze Jan 4 '20 at 21:31
  • $\begingroup$ @Paze I have already shown you how the value of "Odds" relates to the frequency of your variable ShuntEffekt. $\endgroup$ – AdamO Jan 7 '20 at 16:52

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