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Aproksymacja modelu regresji logistycznej Firtha za pomocą ważenia obserwacji
Firth’s Logistic Regression Approximation by Weighting Observations

Author(s): Kamil Fijorek
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Krakowie
Keywords: logistic regression; bias reduction; complete separation; approximate estimation

Summary/Abstract: Firth’s approach to a logistic regression is presented from the perspective of weighted data points. Hidden Logistic Model is reformulated accordingly and two approximations of Firth’s procedure are introduced. A simulation study was conducted to investigate and compare the quality of the approximations.

  • Issue Year: 923/2013
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 87-98
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish