When I run a binomial regression in R with an independed factor variable consisting of three levels \"Higher\" , \"Middle\" and \"Lower\" of which I want to change the referen
cbsnivcat3 is an ordered factor, so relevel won't work. What you can do is change it to an ordinary factor:
cbsnivcat3
relevel
cbsnivcat3 <- factor(cbsnivcat3, levels=c("Lower","Middle","Higher"))