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orthonormal comments on Log-odds (or logits) - Less Wrong Discussion

20 Post author: brilee 28 November 2011 01:11AM

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Comment author: orthonormal 30 November 2011 04:46:56AM 1 point [-]

Good work! You might mention that the reason why log-odds are awful for things like adding probabilities of two disjoint events is that there's not a nice formula for log(x+y). That's the price of turning multiplication into addition.