Do You Need to Normalize Variables for Logistic Regression?

Standardization isn't required for logistic regression. The main goal of standardizing features is to help convergence of the technique used for optimization. For example, if you use Newton-Raphson to maximize the likelihood, standardizing the features makes the convergence faster.

Do you need to normalize variables for regression?

Standardizing the independent variables produces vital benefits when your regression model includes interaction terms and polynomial terms. Always standardize your variables when the model has these terms.

Does logistic regression require continuous variables?

Logistic regression measures the relationship between a categorical dependent variable and one or more independent variables, which are usually (but not necessarily) continuous, by using probability scores as the predicted values of the dependent variable.

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