Re: Understanding logistic regression fitting algorithm

[dennis roberts]

you might want to consider some existing software that has a long history of doing exactly what you are trying to find out ... there are a number of packages that do this sort of analysis

http://www.assess.com/Software/sSumIRT.htm

i think trying to understand the "how" of some of these algorithm routines is great BUT, i am not sure that trying to figure out the "programming" of these will be beneficial ...

but that's just my opinion



At 11:24 AM 10/28/2002, Darren Callaghan wrote:

I'm trying to write a program to perform a fitting procedure for
logistic regression but I've come to a point where my implementation
doesn't give the expected answers (comparing to book results). I'm an
engineer rather than a mathematician or statistician but I really want
to understand how the process works.

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