Logistic Regression for Massive Data with Rare Events

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00683v1
• Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 03:09:49 GMT
• Title: Logistic Regression for Massive Data with Rare Events
• Authors: HaiYing Wang
• Abstract summary: This paper studies binary logistic regression for rare events data, or imbalanced data, where the number of events is significantly smaller than the number of nonevents. We show that the available information in rare events data is at the scale of the number of events instead of the full data sample size.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: This paper studies binary logistic regression for rare events data, or imbalanced data, where the number of events (observations in one class, often called cases) is significantly smaller than the number of nonevents (observations in the other class, often called controls). We first derive the asymptotic distribution of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of the unknown parameter, which shows that the asymptotic variance convergences to zero in a rate of the inverse of the number of the events instead of the inverse of the full data sample size. This indicates that the available information in rare events data is at the scale of the number of events instead of the full data sample size. Furthermore, we prove that under-sampling a small proportion of the nonevents, the resulting under-sampled estimator may have identical asymptotic distribution to the full data MLE. This demonstrates the advantage of under-sampling nonevents for rare events data, because this procedure may significantly reduce the computation and/or data collection costs. Another common practice in analyzing rare events data is to over-sample (replicate) the events, which has a higher computational cost. We show that this procedure may even result in efficiency loss in terms of parameter estimation.

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