Statistics and data science, defined

Logistic Regression

1–p_i

L_i = log

p_i

= a + b x_i,

where p_i is the probability of a success for given value x_i of the explanatory variable X.

Use of the log of the odds p/(1-p) (the logit) guarantees that the predicted value of p will always be between 0 and 1.

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