Should the weights of a neural network without hidden layer and a logistic activation function be the same as the parameters of a logistic regression? Mine are not the same but roughly 5-7 times larger? nnallnohidden=nnet( PartialPrepayzo~FIXPER+MEDSAL2+DREL+LEEFTIJD+HH2CRED+LTV_curr+ rate1Y+rate5Y+CIremFIRP+URB+WELSTAN2+OutNot+mover+SavRate+CRate, data=test, size=0, skip=T) log <- glm(PartialPrepayzo~FIXPER+MEDSAL2+DREL+ LEEFTIJD+HH2CRED+LTV_curr+rate1Y+rate5Y+CIremFIRP+URB+WELSTAN2+OutNot+mover+SavRate+CRate, data = test, family = "binomial") summary(log) [,1] [,2] [1,] -1.029560622391 -9.56664018566 [2,] -0.078225500455 -0.46536644222 [3,] 0.410455341173 2.57036107254 [4,] 0.006961510972 -0.11463794856 [5,] 0.473629162069 2.70074482878 [6,] 0.614550199698 2.83536187570 [7,] -0.612837570442 -3.48086112696 [8,] -0.743739495966 -5.26994471577 [9,] 0.200419240204 1.83957097597 [10,] -0.166568966328 -0.90583277715 [11,] 0.017640270701 0.12678131085 [12,] -0.005947704128 -0.04248886193 [13,] -0.428175932694 -2.69521649738 [14,] 0.049657239050 0.26482261363 [15,] 1.602200661890 10.50479250068 [16,] 0.367771764513 1.96127873663