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12 questions linked to/from What are the consequences of rare events in logistic regression?
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Does an unbalanced sample matter when doing logistic regression?
Okay, so I think I have a decent enough sample, taking into account the 20:1 rule of thumb: a fairly large sample (N=374) for a total of 7 candidate predictor variables.
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Logistic regression in R resulted in perfect separation (Hauck-Donner phenomenon). Now what? [duplicate]
I'm trying to predict a binary outcome using 50 continuous explanatory variables (the range of most of the variables is $-\infty$ to $\infty$). My data set has almost 24,000 rows. When I run ...
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Can I fit logistic regression over a dataset with only categorical data?
I have a dataset which contains only categorical data i.e.A,B,C,D (like factors) for each predictor. There are 10 predictors and the dependent variable is binary, <...
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Rare Events Logistic Regression
Suppose the event of interest occurs in approximately $10 \%$ of the cases where the number of cases is around $5,000$. Should you use a penalized logistic regression for this or is regular logistic ...
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R - Model selection in Glmer
Having troubles to perform a model selection for glmer in R. I'm using the package lme4 with the following structure:
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Logistic regression with small number of cases
The project I'm working on attempts to explain why an NGO is present (1=present,0=not present) in some countries (15) but not others. As I'm working with country-level data, my sample size is ...
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Is there a way to increase the number of predictor in a logistic regression when sample size is small?
One of the dependent variables in my dataset is a binomial variable indicating whether an invasive species has been eradicated (with $n_{1}$ = 23) or not (with $n_{0}$ = 75) after the use of a certain ...
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Feature selection and PCA in logistic regression with rare events data
I am working on a census-related project where I am interested in assigning to everyone a score that estimates the probability they will have a demographic characteristic of interest. In this case, ...
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Binary logistic interpretation (spss)
I'm trying to conduct a binary logistic regression to see how each feature of male crabs contributes to being selected by females. the dependent variable is being selected or not selected which is ...
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Logistic regression with rare events [duplicate]
Could somebody provide some references on the application of logistic regression for modelling rare events?
So far I've come across three methods with the main references below:
Exact logistic ...
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Independent variables minimum counts for logistic regression
I have about 100 samples collected to know the knowledge status of people and it's distributes almost 50 50.
The problem is some of my indipendent variables while making 2x2 the cell value is very ...
