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stat.ME2018★ 7 cited
The phase transition for the existence of the maximum likelihood estimate in high-dimensional logistic regression
Emmanuel J. Candes, Pragya Sur
This paper rigorously establishes that the existence of the maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) in high-dimensional logistic regression models with Gaussian covariates undergoes a sh…
math.ST2018★ 240 cited
A modern maximum-likelihood theory for high-dimensional logistic regression
Pragya Sur, Emmanuel J. Candes
Every student in statistics or data science learns early on that when the sample size largely exceeds the number of variables, fitting a logistic model produces estimates that are…