Two parameters

We assume now that we have two classes with \( y_i \) either \( 0 \) or \( 1 \). Furthermore we assume also that we have only two parameters \( \beta \) in our fitting of the Sigmoid function, that is we define probabilities

$$ \begin{align*} p(y_i=1|x_i,\boldsymbol{\beta}) &= \frac{\exp{(\beta_0+\beta_1x_i)}}{1+\exp{(\beta_0+\beta_1x_i)}},\nonumber\\ p(y_i=0|x_i,\boldsymbol{\beta}) &= 1 - p(y_i=1|x_i,\boldsymbol{\beta}), \end{align*} $$

where \( \boldsymbol{\beta} \) are the weights we wish to extract from data, in our case \( \beta_0 \) and \( \beta_1 \).

Note that we used

$$ p(y_i=0\vert x_i, \boldsymbol{\beta}) = 1-p(y_i=1\vert x_i, \boldsymbol{\beta}). $$