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Notation(multinomiallogisticregressionalgorithms)

Notation(multinomiallogisticregressionalgorithms)
Thefollowingnotationisusedthroughoutthischapterunlessotherwisestated:
Y

Theresponsevariable,whichtakesintegervaluesfrom1to
J.

Thenumberofcategoriesofthenominalresponse.

Thenumberofsubpopulations.
A

m p A matrixwithvectorelement x i ,theobservedvalues

XA

attheithsubpopulation,determinedbytheindependent
variablesspecifiedinthecommand.

m pmatrixwithvectorelement x i ,theobservedvaluesof

thelocationmodelsindependentvariablesattheith
subpopulation.

fijs

Thefrequencyweightforthesthobservationwhichbelongs
tothecellcorrespondingtoY=jatsubpopulationi.

nij

Thesumoffrequencyweightsoftheobservationsthat
belongtothecellcorrespondingtoY=jatsubpopulationi.

Thesumofallnij s.

ij

ThecellprobabilitycorrespondingtoY=jatsubpopulationi.

log ( i j / i k )

Thelogitofresponsecategoryjtoresponsecategoryk.

j = ( j1 , ... , j p )

p 1vectorofunknownparametersinthejthlogit(i.e.,
logitofresponsecategoryjtoresponsecategoryJ).

Numberofparametersineachlogit.p1.

pj

Numberofnonredundantparametersinlogitjafter
nr
maximumlikelihoodestimation. p p 0.
j

p nr

Thetotalnumberofnonredundantparametersafter
J 1 nr
maximumlikelihoodestimation. p n r =
.
j =1 p j

nr

B=

( 1 , ... , J 1 ) '

^
B =
^
ij

( ^ ,...,^ )
1

J 1

( J 1 ) p 1vectorofunknownparametersinthemodel.
ThemaximumlikelihoodestimateofB.
Themaximumlikelihoodestimateof i j

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