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R Statistics Cookbook

You're reading from  R Statistics Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789802566
Pages 448 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Francisco Juretig Francisco Juretig
Profile icon Francisco Juretig

Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with R and Statistics 2. Univariate and Multivariate Tests for Equality of Means 3. Linear Regression 4. Bayesian Regression 5. Nonparametric Methods 6. Robust Methods 7. Time Series Analysis 8. Mixed Effects Models 9. Predictive Models Using the Caret Package 10. Bayesian Networks and Hidden Markov Models 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Robust logistic regression

Logistic regression is used for modeling a categorical variable (for example yes/no) in terms of a set of covariates. The intention is to assess the impact of these covariates on the conditional probabilities estimated by the model.
The problem is that this technique is not robust to outliers, and even minor ones can greatly impact our estimation. This is the same problem that we had for linear regression.

The robust package offers functionality to estimate robust logistic regression models. These are relevant for the same reasons as for robust regression.

Getting ready

In order to run this recipe, you need to install the robust package using install.packages("robust").

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