Automatic Response Category Combination in Multinomial Logistic Regression

05/10/2017
by   Bradley S. Price, et al.
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We propose a penalized likelihood method that simultaneously fits the multinomial logistic regression model and combines subsets of the response categories. The penalty is non differentiable when pairs of columns in the optimization variable are equal. This encourages pairwise equality of these columns in the estimator, which corresponds to response category combination. We use an alternating direction method of multipliers algorithm to compute the estimator and we discuss the algorithm's convergence. Prediction and model selection are also addressed.

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