Now in a year it will grow 50% of its previous value, so in 2018 if it was $1 then in 2019 it becomes $1.5 and in 2020 it becomes $2.25. Let say you have invested a dollar somewhere. A little bit of touch to Exponent’s functionality If the value is above 0.5 then you know it is towards the desired outcome (that is 1) and if it is below 0.5 then you know it is towards not-desired outcome (that is 0). But you know in logistic regression it doesn’t work that way, that is why you put your X value here in this formula P = e( β0 + β1X+ εi) /e( β0 + β1X+ εi) +1 and map the result on x-axis and y-axis. That P will be the probability of your outcome being TRUE based on some given parameters.įrom a different perspective, let’s say you have your regression formula available with intercept and slope already given to you, you just need to put in the value of X to predict Y. Now you can put that value into the formula P = e( β0 + β1X+ εi) /e( β0 + β1X+ εi) +1 and get the value of P. When you calculate total number of 1s and 0s you can calculate the value of log(p /(1-p)) quite easily and we know that this value is equal to β0 + β1X+ εi. If you look closely it is the probability of desired outcome being true divided by the probability of desired outcome not being true and this is called logit function. log(p /(1-p)) is called the odds of probability.
After doing some calculations that formula in 3rd step can be re-written as log(p /(1-p)) = β0 + β1X+ εi.ĥ. We divide that P by something bigger than itself so that it remains less than one and hence we get P = e( β0 + β1X+ εi) /e( β0 + β1X+ εi) +1.Ĥ. We have to use exponential so that it does not become negative and hence we get P = exp( β0 + β1X+ εi).ģ.
Regression formula give us Y using formula Yi = β0 + β1X+ εi.Ģ. Now, to find the probability of desired outcome, two things we must always be followed.ġ- That the probability can not be negative, so we introduce a term called exponential in our normal regression model to make it logistic regression.Ģ- Since the probability can never be greater than 1, we need to divide our outcome by something bigger than itself.Īnd based on those two things, our formula for logistic regression unfolds as following:ġ. Keep in mind that the main premise of logistic regression is still based upon a typical regression model with a few methodical changes. Below I am going to describe how we do that mapping. Now the question arises, how do we map binary information of 1s and 0s to regression model which uses continuous variables? The reason we do that mapping is because we want our model to be capable of finding the probability of desired outcome being true. Note that the number 0 on Y-axis represents that half of the counts of total number is on left and half of total count is on right, but it cannot be the case always. If you have a greater number of 1s then that S will be skewed upwards and if you have greater numbers of 0s then it will be skewed downwards. To do that you have to imagine that the probability can only be between 0 and 1 and when you try to fit a line to those points, it cannot be a straight line but rather a S-shape curve. But how can we use that probability to make a kind of smooth distribution that fits a line (Not linear) as close as possible to all the points you have, given that those points are either 0 or 1. All we have is the counts of 0s and 1s which is only useful to find probabilities for example say if you have five 0s and fifteen 1s then getting 0 has probability of 0.25 and getting 1 has the probability of 0.75. Now, this is all good when the value of Y can be -∞ to + ∞, but if the value needs to be TRUE or FALSE, 0 or 1, YES or No then our variables does not follow normal distribution pattern. Also, the error term εi is assumed to be normally distributed and if that error term is added to each output of Y, then Y is also becoming normally distributed, which means that for each value of X we get Y and that Y is contributing to that normal distribution. We know this is linear because for each unit change in X, it will affect the Y by some magnitude β1. We have equation of the form Yi = β0 + β1X+ εi, where we predict the value of Y for some value of X. We know that a liner model assumes that response variable is normally distributed. Note that this is more of an introductory article, to dive deep into this topic you would have to learn many different aspects of data analytics and their implementations. When I was trying to understand the logistic regression myself, I wasn’t getting any comprehensive answers for it, but after doing thorough study of the topic, this post is what I came up with. Here I have tried to explain logistic regression with as easy explanation as it was possible for me. I am assuming that the reader is familiar with Linear regression model and its functionality.
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