I'm struggling to wrap my head around the intuitiveness of the likelihood function for logistic regression shown below. If you could please explain why: A) you want to have a joint probability function B) you want to take 1-P(X) for all non-cases for this joint probability function.
2026-03-26 08:14:14.1774512854
intuitive explanation/derivation of likelihood function for logistic regression
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