Condition Number Analysis of Logistic Regression, and its Implications for Standard First-Order Solution Methods

Condition Number Analysis of Logistic Regression, and its Implications for Standard First-Order Solution Methods

Neyman Seminar
Nov 14, 2018, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Paul Grigas, UC Berkeley
Logistic regression is one of the most popular methods in binary classification, wherein estimation of model parameters is carried out by solving the maximum likelihood (ML) optimization problem, and the ML estimator is defined to be the optimal solution of this problem. It is well known that the ML estimator exists when the data is non-separable, but fails to exist when the data is separable....