COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS, vol.34, no.2, pp.683-712, 2019 (SCI-Expanded)
The purpose of this paper is to solve the problem of multicollinearity that affects the estimation of logistic regression model by introducing first-order approximated jackknifed ridge logistic estimator which is more efficient than the first-order approximated maximum likelihood estimator and has smaller variance than the first-order approximated jackknife ridge logistic estimator. Comparisons of the first-order approximated jackknifed ridge logistic estimator to the first-order approximated maximum likelihood, first-order approximated ridge, first-order approximated r-k class and principal components logistic regression estimators according to the bias, covariance and mean square error criteria are done. Three different estimators for the ridge parameter are also proposed. A real data set is used to see the performance of the first-order approximated jackknifed ridge logistic estimator over the first-order approximated maximum likelihood, first-order approximated ridge logistic, first-order approximated r-k class and first-order approximated principal components logistic regression estimators. Finally, two simulation studies are conducted in order to show the performance of the first-order approximated jackknife ridge logistic estimator.