Definition
In statistic, log-linear regression is a powerful regression technique that models relationship between a dependent variable or regressand Y, explanatory variable or regressor X = {x1, … , xI} and a random term ε by fitting a log-linear model,
where α0 is the constant term, the αi s are the respective parameters of independent variables, and I is the number of parameters to be estimated in the log-linear regression.
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The goal of log-linear regression is to explore effect a set of covariance X = {x1, … , xI} on the expected rate [1]. It assumes that a linear relationship exists between the log of the regressand Y and the regressor X = {x1, … , xI}. The log-linear regression is appropriate for categorical variables.
When applied to continuous variables, discretization is an essential step for preprocessing. There are two basic steps to using log-linear...
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Shen, J. (2018). Log-Linear Regression. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_543
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