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This section contains statistics formulas for the Logistic and SinReg regressions, ANOVA,
2-SampÜTest, and 2-SampTTest.
Logistic
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Logistic
The logistic regression algorithm applies nonlinear recursive least-squares techniques to
optimize the following cost function:
which is the sum of the squares of the residual errors,
This technique attempts to estimate the constants a, b, and c recursively to make J as
small as possible.
where: x
y
N
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the independent variable list
the dependent variable list
the dimension of the lists
Jc
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