This article presents a complete demo program for logistic regression, using batch stochastic gradient descent training with weight decay. Compared to other binary classification techniques, logistic ...

Regression can be used on categorical responses to estimate probabilities and to classify.

Selection of a subset of meaningful covariates for a statistical model is an important and often time-consuming task in model building. Lawless and Singhal (1978, Biometrics 34, 318-327) proposed a ...

To avoid these, penalized maximum likelihood estimates are introduced, which give estimates of the logistic parameters and a nonparametric spline estimate of the marginal distribution of x. Extensions ...