Regression can be used on categorical responses to estimate probabilities and to classify.

Selection of a subset of meaningful covariates for a statistical model is an important and often time-consuming task in model building. Lawless and Singhal (1978, Biometrics 34, 318-327) proposed a ...

To avoid these, penalized maximum likelihood estimates are introduced, which give estimates of the logistic parameters and a nonparametric spline estimate of the marginal distribution of x. Extensions ...