Le 21 mars 2012 07:49, Andrew Cepheus <[email protected]> a écrit :
> The LogisticRegression class holds a coef_ attribute which is said to hold
> the coefficients in the decision function.
> High (positive) coefficients mean more correlation with the class, while low
> (negative) ones mean an opposite correlation with the class.
> - Assuming that I have two class in that target variable, to which class the
> coefficients match? Is it the first class, i.e., y[0]?

If there are only two classes, 0 or -1 is treated as negative and 1 is
treated as positive.

> - Why is the shape of the coefficients  [n_classes-1, n_features]? if the
> top coefficients are most correlated with the first class, then the bottom
> ones are most correlated with the second class?

In the multi-class case, coef_ seems to have shape [n_classes,
n_features] (it's a one vs the rest multiclass model).

I think the docstring is wrong. Anybody can confirm?

-- 
Olivier
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