Kin-Yee Chan, Wei-Yin Loh, LOTUS: An Algorithm for Building Accurate and Comprehensible Logistic Regression Trees, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Dec., 2004), pp.

Logistic regression analysis of high-dimensional data, such as natural language text, poses computational and statistical challenges. Maximum likelihood estimation often fails in these applications.