Linda June Davis, Modification of the Empirical Logit to Reduce Bias in Simple Linear Logistic Regression, Biometrika, Vol. 72, No. 1 (Apr., 1985), pp. 199-202 ...

For the parameters of a multinomial logistic regression, it is shown how to obtain the bias-reducing penalized maximum likelihood estimator by using the equivalent Poisson log-linear model. The ...