Understanding Logistic Regression Coefficients

Or a better way to think about probability in terms of evidence

Ravi Charan
11 min readDec 15, 2019

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Logistic Regression suffers from a common frustration: the coefficients are hard to interpret. If you’ve fit a Logistic Regression model, you might try to say something like “if variable X goes up by 1, then the probability of the dependent variable happening goes up by ???” but…

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