Full-move connectivity conjecture for positive-marginal fibers in multiple logistic regression

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Let mm covariates index combinations of levels, and let \Bj=(j1,,jm)\Bj=(j_1,\dots,j_m) denote such a combination. Let e\Bj\bm{e}_{\Bj} be the array with 11 at cell (1,\Bj)(1,\Bj) and 1-1 at cell (2,\Bj)(2,\Bj). Define BΛ(A1Am){\cal B}_{\Lambda(A_1 \otimes \dots \otimes A_m)} to consist of moves zz satisfying

z=e\Bj1e\Bj2e\Bj3+e\Bj4,\Bj1\Bj2=\Bj3\Bj4.z=\bm{e}_{\Bj_1}-\bm{e}_{\Bj_2}-\bm{e}_{\Bj_3}+\bm{e}_{\Bj_4},\qquad \Bj_1-\Bj_2=\Bj_3-\Bj_4.

A fiber has positive response marginals when the response-variable marginal for every combination of covariates is positive. Full-move connectivity conjecture. The set of moves BΛ(A1Am){\cal B}_{\Lambda(A_1 \otimes \dots \otimes A_m)} connects every fiber with positive response marginals for logistic regression with mm covariates. This is presented as the natural extension of the bivariate theorem. Parts of the bivariate proof generalize, but the arguments for Cases 3 and 5 do not currently extend to the multiple-covariate setting.

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Hisayuki Hara, Akimichi Takemura and Ruriko Yoshida, “On connectivity of fibers with positive marginals in multiple logistic regression”, arXiv:0810.1793 (2008).

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