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Wboy
Wboy

Reputation: 2552

Logistic regression plot in R gives a straight line instead of an S-shape curve

I was plotting the results of a logistic regression, but instead of the expected S curve, I got a straight line like this:

enter image description here

This was the code that I was using:

I created a range of data from the original x-axis, converted it to data frame, and then predicted and drew the lines. 

 model = glm(SHOT_RESULT~SHOT_DISTANCE,family='binomial',data = df_2shot)
 summary(model)
 #Eqn : P(SHOT_RESULT = True) = 1 / (1 + e^-(0.306 - 0.0586(SHOT_DISTANCE)))

 r = range(df_2shot$SHOT_DISTANCE) # draws a curve based on prediction
 x_range = seq(r[1],r[2],1)
 x_range = as.integer(x_range)
 y = predict(model,data.frame(SHOT_DISTANCE = x_range),type="response")
 plot(df_2shot$SHOT_DISTANCE, df_2shot$SHOT_RESULT, pch = 16,
      xlab = "SHOT DISTANCE", ylab = "SHOT RESULT")
 lines(x_range,y)

Side note: I was following this tutorial: http://www.theanalysisfactor.com/r-glm-plotting/

Any insights would be appreciated! Thank you! :)

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4813

Answers (1)

Zheyuan Li
Zheyuan Li

Reputation: 73385

Haha, I see what happened. It is because of the range you plot. I saw the functional form of the curve from your comment line, and I define it as a function:

f <- function (x) 1 / (1 + exp(-0.306 + 0.0586 * x))

Now, if we plot

x <- -100 : 100
plot(x, f(x), type = "l")

enter image description here

Logistic curve has a near linear shape in the middle. That is what you arrived at!

Upvotes: 7

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