R help - Dec 2004 - glm vs multinom

Dear Colleagues,

I am doing two class classification using logistic regression. I realized that I
can either use "glm" function or "multinom" function. I know
"multinom" is used for multiclass classification. But if I was it for
binary classification, I was wondering if there is an difference in the results
compared to "glm" results.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Raj

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On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Rajdeep Das wrote:
> I am doing two class classification using logistic regression. I 
> realized that I can either use "glm" function or
"multinom" function. I
> know "multinom" is used for multiclass classification. But if I
was it
> for binary classification, I was wondering if there is an difference in 
> the results compared to "glm" results.
Why wonder?  Try it and see.
If you use both correctly, the differences will be small.

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