
Is Logistic Regression a classification or prediction model?
Jun 30, 2023 · In this forum, there are opposite opinions(1), (2) on the uses of logistic regression. Ones say, it is a classification model and others say it is a prediction model. Therefore, the question that I...
Why is logistic regression a linear model? - Cross Validated
Mar 3, 2014 · In linear regression Y Y is a continuous dependent variable, but in logistic regression it is regressing for the probability of a categorical outcome (for example 0 and 1).
regularization - Why is logistic regression particularly prone to ...
This looks like it's saying that logistic regression tends to overfit when you add many parameters to the model, which regularization helps combat.
How to test for goodness of fit for a logistic regression model?
Dec 25, 2016 · 8 I would like to assess the goodness of fit of a logistic regression model I'm working on. I've done a lot of research and happened to find likelihood ratio test, chi-squared test, Hosmer and …
Why isn't Logistic Regression called Logistic Classification?
Dec 8, 2014 · 121 Since Logistic Regression is a statistical classification model dealing with categorical dependent variables, why isn't it called Logistic Classification? Shouldn't the "Regression" name be …
Does an unbalanced sample matter when doing logistic regression ...
For logistic regression models unbalanced training data affects only the estimate of the model intercept (although this of course skews all the predicted probabilities, which in turn compromises your …
What do the residuals in a logistic regression mean?
In my book Regression Modeling Strategies I downplay the use of residuals in logistic regression because (1) logistic regression makes no distributional assumptions and (2) there are more direct …
Correlation using Logistic Regression and Pearson
This one is good for capturing things like ambiversion. Logistic regression works with both - continuous variables and categorical (encoded as dummy variables), so you can directly run logistic regression …
Which pseudo-$R^2$ measure is the one to report for logistic …
73 I have SPSS output for a logistic regression model. The output reports two measures for the model fit, Cox & Snell and Nagelkerke. So as a rule of thumb, which of these R2 R ² measures would you …
Overfitting a logistic regression model - Cross Validated
Jun 14, 2015 · In general, the log odds ratios of a logistic regression model tend toward a biased factor of 2β 2 β because of non-collapsibility of the odds ratio and zero cell counts. In inference, this is …