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title: Logistic Regression Foundations
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aliases: [Logistic Regression, Logit, Softmax Regression, Multinomial Logistic]
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tags: [machine-learning, classification, sklearn, mle, calibration]
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  language: python
  framework: scikit-learn/statsmodels
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# Logistic Regression Foundations

## 매 한 줄
> **"매 분류의 baseline — 선형 logit + sigmoid + MLE"**. Logistic regression은 linear model로 log-odds를 추정하고 sigmoid로 확률화한 classifier. 해석성·calibration·속도가 뛰어나 production에서 여전히 1순위 baseline. 다중 class는 softmax(=multinomial)로 일반화.

## 매 핵심

### 매 수식
- 모델: $P(y=1|x) = \sigma(x^T\beta) = \frac{1}{1+e^{-x^T\beta}}$.
- Logit (log-odds): $\log\frac{p}{1-p} = x^T\beta$.
- Loss (NLL/BCE): $-\sum_i [y_i\log p_i + (1-y_i)\log(1-p_i)]$.
- 추정: MLE — closed-form 없음, IRLS / L-BFGS / SGD.

### 매 해석
- $\beta_j$ 1 단위 증가 → log-odds가 $\beta_j$ 만큼 증가.
- $e^{\beta_j}$ = odds ratio (1.5면 50% odds 증가).
- Sign과 magnitude 둘 다 의미 있음 (단, scale 통일 필수).

### 매 Multinomial / softmax
- $P(y=k|x) = \frac{e^{x^T\beta_k}}{\sum_j e^{x^T\beta_j}}$.
- sklearn `multi_class="multinomial"` (default 2026).
- One-vs-Rest는 클래스 분포 불균형 시 유리할 수 있음.

### 매 Regularization
- L2 (default): $C = 1/\lambda$.
- L1: feature selection.
- Elastic Net: SAGA solver.

### 매 Calibration
- LR은 보통 잘 calibrated이지만 imbalanced + regularized하면 이탈.
- 검증: `CalibratedClassifierCV`, reliability diagram.

### 매 응용
1. CTR / 전환 예측.
2. 신용 평가 (해석 필수 도메인).
3. 의료 risk score.
4. 텍스트 분류 (TF-IDF + LR — 강력한 baseline).
5. A/B test의 효과 추정 (treatment dummy).

## 💻 패턴

### sklearn — 기본
```python
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline

clf = Pipeline([
    ("sc", StandardScaler()),
    ("lr", LogisticRegression(C=1.0, max_iter=1000, n_jobs=-1)),
]).fit(X_tr, y_tr)
proba = clf.predict_proba(X_te)[:, 1]
```

### Hyper-param search (C, penalty)
```python
from sklearn.model_selection import GridSearchCV
grid = {
    "lr__C": [0.01, 0.1, 1, 10],
    "lr__penalty": ["l1", "l2"],
    "lr__solver": ["saga"],
}
gs = GridSearchCV(clf, grid, cv=5, scoring="roc_auc", n_jobs=-1).fit(X_tr, y_tr)
print(gs.best_params_, gs.best_score_)
```

### Multinomial (softmax)
```python
multi = LogisticRegression(
    multi_class="multinomial", solver="lbfgs",
    C=1.0, max_iter=2000,
).fit(X_tr, y_tr)
print(multi.classes_, multi.coef_.shape)   # (n_classes, n_features)
```

### statsmodels — odds ratio + p-value
```python
import statsmodels.api as sm
X_const = sm.add_constant(X_tr)
logit = sm.Logit(y_tr, X_const).fit(disp=False)
print(logit.summary())
import numpy as np
print("Odds ratios:")
print(np.exp(logit.params))
```

### Imbalanced classes
```python
# 1) class_weight
LogisticRegression(class_weight="balanced")
# 2) threshold tuning (default 0.5는 거의 항상 잘못)
from sklearn.metrics import precision_recall_curve
prec, rec, thr = precision_recall_curve(y_te, proba)
f1 = 2*prec*rec / (prec+rec+1e-9)
best_thr = thr[f1[:-1].argmax()]
pred = (proba >= best_thr).astype(int)
```

### Calibration 점검 + 보정
```python
from sklearn.calibration import CalibratedClassifierCV, calibration_curve
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

cal = CalibratedClassifierCV(clf, method="isotonic", cv=5).fit(X_tr, y_tr)
prob_cal = cal.predict_proba(X_te)[:, 1]
prob_obs, prob_pred = calibration_curve(y_te, prob_cal, n_bins=10)
plt.plot(prob_pred, prob_obs, marker="o"); plt.plot([0,1],[0,1],"--"); plt.show()
```

### From scratch — gradient descent
```python
import numpy as np
def sigmoid(z): return 1.0 / (1.0 + np.exp(-z))
def fit_lr(X, y, lr=0.1, epochs=1000, l2=0.01):
    X = np.c_[np.ones(len(X)), X]; w = np.zeros(X.shape[1])
    for _ in range(epochs):
        p = sigmoid(X @ w)
        grad = X.T @ (p - y) / len(y) + l2 * np.r_[0, w[1:]]
        w -= lr * grad
    return w
```

### PyTorch — large-scale logistic
```python
import torch, torch.nn as nn
class LR(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, d, k):
        super().__init__()
        self.lin = nn.Linear(d, k)
    def forward(self, x): return self.lin(x)

model = LR(X.shape[1], n_classes).cuda()
opt = torch.optim.AdamW(model.parameters(), lr=1e-3, weight_decay=1e-4)
loss_fn = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
for epoch in range(20):
    for xb, yb in loader:
        opt.zero_grad()
        loss = loss_fn(model(xb.cuda()), yb.cuda())
        loss.backward(); opt.step()
```

## 매 결정 기준
| 상황 | Approach |
|---|---|
| Tabular baseline | sklearn LR + StandardScaler |
| 해석 필요 (의료/금융) | statsmodels Logit + odds ratio |
| Imbalanced | class_weight + threshold tuning |
| Multi-class | multinomial + lbfgs |
| Sparse / feature selection | L1 + saga |
| Probability를 점수로 사용 | CalibratedClassifierCV |
| 대규모 | PyTorch SGD/Adam |

**기본값**: StandardScaler + LR(C=1, L2) + threshold tuning.

## 🔗 Graph
- 변형: [[Linear-Discriminant-Analysis]]
- Adjacent: [[Linear-Regression-Mastery]], [[L1-and-L2-Regularization]]

## 🤖 LLM 활용
**언제**: 결과 해석 (odds ratio 설명), feature importance narrative, calibration plot 코멘트.
**언제 X**: 도메인 cutoff (금융 risk threshold) — 비즈니스/규제가 결정.

## ❌ 안티패턴
- **Scaling 없이 regularize**: 큰 scale feature가 패널티 지배.
- **Threshold 0.5 그대로**: imbalanced일 때 거의 잘못된 선택.
- **Probability를 그대로 신뢰**: calibration 안 함.
- **Multi-class에 OvR만 사용**: 클래스 간 정보 손실.
- **수렴 안 되는데 max_iter 안 늘림**: warning 무시 → 부정확한 coef.

## 🧪 검증 / 중복
- Verified (ESL Ch.4, sklearn 1.5+, statsmodels 0.14, Kaggle baselines).
- 신뢰도 A.

## 🕓 Changelog
| 날짜 | 변경 |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-08 | Phase 1 |
| 2026-05-10 | Manual cleanup — calibration, threshold tuning, multinomial 추가 |
