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In statistics, logistic regression, or logit regression, or logit model is a type of probabilistic statistical classification model. It is also used to predict a binary response from a binary predictor, used for predicting the outcome of a categorical dependent variable (i.e., a class label) based on one or more predictor variables (features). That is, it is used in estimating the parameters of a qualitative response model. The probabilities describing the possible outcomes of a single trial are modeled, as a function of the explanatory (predictor) variables, using a logistic function. Frequently (and hereafter in this article) "logistic regression" is used to refer specifically to the problem in which the dependent variable is binary—that is, the number of available categories is two—while problems with more than two categories are referred to as multinomial logistic regression or, if the multiple categories are ordered, as ordered logistic regression
Logistic regression measures the relationship between the categorical dependent variable and one or more independent variables, which are usually (but not necessarily) continuous, by using probability scores as the predicted values of the dependent variable.[3] Thus, it treats the same set of problems as does probit regression using similar techniques; the first assumes a logistic function and the second a standard normal distribution function
Logistic regression can be seen as a special case of generalized linear model and thus analogous to linear regression. The model of logistic regression, however, is based on quite different assumptions (about the relationship between dependent and independent variables) from those of linear regression. In particular the key differences of these two models can be seen in the following two features of logistic regression
Logistic regression can in many ways be seen to be similar to ordinary regression. It models the relationship between a dependent and one or more independent variables, and allows us to look at the fit of the model as well as at the significance of the relationships (between dependent and independent variables) that we are modelling. However, the underlying principle of binomial logistic regression, and its statistical calculation, are quite different to ordinary linear regression. While ordinary regression uses ordinary least squares to find a best fitting line, and comes up with coefficients that predict the change in the dependent variable for one unit change in the independent variable, logistic regression estimates the probability of an event occurring (e.g. the probability of a pupil continuing in education post 16). What we want to predict from a knowledge of relevant independent variables is not a precise numerical value of a dependent variable, but rather the probability (p) that it is 1 (event occurring) rather than 0 (event not occurring). This means that, while in linear regression, the relationship between the dependent and the independent variables is linear, this assumption is not made in logistic regression

Curriculum

Different Methods of Predicting Probabilities
Introduction
Method of Predicting Probabilities- Survival Analysis
Modeling Key Concepts
Reasons for using Regression Analysis
Regression Variables
Section 1: Introduction
Section 2: Regression Analysis
Section 3: Predicting Probabilities
Section 4: Logistics Regression
What is Logistic Regression?
What is Regression?
Why Logistic Regression and not OLS?

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