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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JDS</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of Data Science</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">1680-743X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1680-743X</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>SOSRUC</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">120402</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.6339/JDS.201410_12(4).0002</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <article-title>Softmax Model as Generalization upon Logistic Discrimination  Suffers from Overfitting</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Basatini</surname>
            <given-names>F. Mohammadi</given-names>
          </name>
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        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_000">Deartment of Statistics, Shoushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University.</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Chinipardaz</surname>
            <given-names>Rahim</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_001">Deartment of Statistics, Shahid Chamran Universityn</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>12</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>563</fpage>
      <lpage>574</lpage>
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        <p>Abstract: The motivation behind this paper is to investigate the use of Softmax model for classification. We show that Softmax model is a nonlinear generalization for the logistic discrimination, that can approximate the posterior probabilities of classes where other Artificial neural network (ANN) models don't have this ability. We show that Softmax model has more flexibility than logistic discrimination in terms of correct classification. To show the performance of Softmax model a medical data set on thyroid gland state is used. The result is that Softmax model may suffer from overfitting.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Neural network model</kwd>
        <kwd>Softmax model</kwd>
        <kwd>logistic discrimination</kwd>
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