Dimension Reduction in Binary Response Regression

The idea of dimension reduction without loss of information can be quite helpful for guiding the construction of summary plots in regression without requiring a prespecified model. Focusing on the central subspace, we investigate such “sufficient” dimension reduction in regressions with a binary response. Three existing methods—sliced inverse regression, principal Hessian direction, and sliced average variance estimation—and one new method—difference of covariances—are studied for their ability to estimate the central subspace and produce sufficient summary plots. Combining these numerical methods with the graphical methods proposed earlier by Cook leads to a novel paradigm for the analysis of binary response regressions.