1726Fit Y by X PlatformLogistic Regression—The Categorical by Continuous Case
Figure 6.34Interpreting the Logistic Plot
Markers for the data are drawn at their x-coordinate, with the y position jittered randomly within the
range corresponding to the response category for that row. You can see that the points tend to push the
lines apart and make vertical space where they occur in numbers, and allow the curves to get close
together where there is no data. The data pushes the curves because the criterion that is maximized is
the product of the probabilities fitted by the model. The fit tries to avoid points attributed to have a
small probability ...
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