Understanding linear and logistic regression analyses

Understanding logistic regression analysis

Logistic regression is used to obtain odds ratio in the presence of more than one explanatory variable. The procedure is quite similar to multiple linear regression, with the exception that the response variable is binomial. The result is the impact of each variable on the odds ratio of the observed event of interest. The main advantage is to avoid confounding effects by analyzing the associati...

Log - Linear Modeling and Logistic Regression

cumulative logistic regression vs ordinary logistic regression

The common practice of collapsing inherently continuous or ordinal variables into two categories causes information loss that may potentially weaken power to detect effects of explanatory variables and result in Type II errors in statistical inference. The purpose of this investigation was to illustrate, using a substantive example, the potential increase in power gained from an ordinal instead...

Multiple Logistic Regression and Model Fit Multiple Logistic Regression Just as in OLS regression, logistic models

Multiple Logistic Regression Just as in OLS regression, logistic models can include more than one predictor. The analysis options are similar to regression. One can choose to select variables, as with a stepwise procedure, or one can enter the predictors simultaneously, or they can be entered in blocks. Variations of the likelihood ratio test can be conducted in which the chi-square test (G) is...

Multiplicative Updates for L1-Regularized Linear and Logistic Regression

Multiplicative update rules have proven useful in many areas of machine learning. Simple to implement, guaranteed to converge, they account in part for the widespread popularity of algorithms such as nonnegative matrix factorization and Expectation-Maximization. In this paper, we show how to derive multiplicative updates for problems in L1-regularized linear and logistic regression. For L1–regu...