What is Logit and Logistic?

 

In Math

If $p$ is probability..

  • odds is $\frac{p}{1-p}$.
  • The logit (logistic unit) function or the log-odds is $logit(p) = \log \frac{p}{1-p}$ in statistics.
    • Logit function makes a map of probability values from $(0, 1)$ to $(-\infty, +\infty)$.
  • The logistic function or the sigmoid function is the inverse-logit. ($logistic(x) = logit^{-1}(x) = \frac{1}{1+e^{-x}}=\frac{e^{x}}{e^{x}+1}=p$

In Machine Learning

The vector of raw (non-normalized) predictions that a classification model generates, which is ordinarily then passed to a normalization function. Normalization function could be the sigmoid function in binary-class classification or softmax function in multi-class classification.

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