This book introduces
basic and advanced concepts of categorical regression
with a focus on the structuring constituents of
regression. As reference for statisticians, applied
researchers, and students it includes many topics not
normally
included in books on categorical data analysis.
In addition to standard methods such as logit and
probit models and their extensions to multivariate
settings, the book presents more recent developments
in regularized regression with a focus on the
selection of predictors; tools for flexible
nonparametric regression that yield fits that are
closer to the data; non-standard tree-based ensemble
methods; and tools for the handling of both nominal
and ordered categorical predictors. Issues of
prediction are explicitly considered in a chapter that
introduces standard and newer classification
techniques.