# Metadata Source URL:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinomial_logistic_regression Topics:: #mathematic, #probability --- # Multinomial logistic regression - Wikipedia ## Highlights > [!quote]+ Updated on 271022_092700 > > In statistics, multinomial logistic regression is a classification method that generalizes logistic regression to multiclass problems, i.e. with more than two possible discrete outcomes.[1] That is, it is a model that is used to predict the probabilities of the different possible outcomes of a categorically distributed dependent variable, given a set of independent variables (which may be real-valued, binary-valued, categorical-valued, etc.).