Simulation-based regularized logistic regression (reglogit R package)
07/08/2011
reglogit is an R package for regularized logistic regression by Gibbs sampling. The package implements subtly different MCMC schemes with varying efficiency depending on the data type (binary v. binomial, say) and the desired estimator (regularized maximum likelihood, or Bayesian maximum a posteriori/posterior mean, etc.) through a unified interface
This software is licensed under the GNU Lesser Public
License (LGPL), version 2 or later.
Obtaining reglogit
- Obtain R from cran.r-project.org by selecting the version for your operating system.
- Install the reglogit, mvtnorm and boot packages, from within R.
> install.packages(c("reglogit", "mvtnorm", "boot"))
- Load the library as you would for any R library.
> library(reglogit)
Documentation
- See the package documentation. A pdf version of the
reference manual, or help pages, as also available.
The help pages can be accessed from within
R. Try starting with...
help(package=reglogit)
?reglogit # follow the examples
References
- Robert B. Gramacy and Nicholas G. Polson. Simulation-based regularized logistic regression (2012) Bayesian Analysis, to appear; preprint on arXiv:1005.3430
Please send questions and comments to rbgramacy_AT (_chicagobooth_DOT_edu). Enjoy!
Robert B. Gramacy -- 20010