On 2011-10-19, at 13:12, Jason Rennie <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Lars Buitinck <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, by MaxEnt I meant the true multiclass version of LR rather than
> the OvA version. I put a note to this effect in the docstring, but
> I'll leave the narrative docs to someone who is more knowledgeable
> than me wrt. linear models.
> 
> Possible alternative names are "softmax" and "multinomial logit".  Note that 
> "maximum entropy" is basically just exponential family maximum likelihood and 
> not specific to  to multinomial LR.

Also referred to as "discrete choice analysis" in some circles. You could fill 
a book with the number of naming duplications in this field...
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