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...s. Then even though the data are separated, the penalized log-likelihood has a unique maximum. One intriguing feature is that as the penalty parameter goes to zero, the solution converges to the SVM solution - i.e. the optimal separating hyperplane see http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~hastie/Papers/margmax1.ps -------------------------------------------------------------------- Trevor Hastie hastie@stanford.edu Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University Phone: (650) 725-2231 (Statistics) Fax: (650) 725-8977 (650) 498-5233 (Biostatis...