Presentation of Ordinal Regression Analysis on the Original Scale

Frequently, ordinal measurement scales are constructed either by coarse measurement of interval or ratio scales, or by assigning numeric scores to ordinal categories. When data on such scales are analyzed using the ordinal regression techniques of McCullagh (1980, Journal of the Royal Statistics Society, Series B 42, 109-142), inference is usually performed, and results presented, on the scale of the linear predictor. This can be unsatisfactory from the point of view of the applied scientist familiar with the original scale definition. It is demonstrated how ordinal regression results can be presented on the original ordinal score scale.