A pathological glm() problem that doesn’t issue a warning

Win-Vector Blog 2013-05-02

Summary:

I know I have already written a lot about technicalities in logistic regression (see for example: How robust is logistic regression? and Newton-Raphson can compute an average). But I just ran into a simple case where R‘s glm() implementation of logistic regression seems to fail without issuing a warning message. Yes the data is a [...]

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Tags:

statistics r logistic regression diverge generalized linear model glm newton-raphson regularization

Authors:

John Mount

Date tagged:

05/02/2013, 04:40

Date published:

05/01/2013, 10:11