Logistic Regression Simply Explained in 5 minutes
Last Updated on July 25, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Serafeim Loukas, PhD
Originally published on Towards AI.
A simple and gentle introduction to Logistic Regression with Python code & a working example
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Logistic regression is a machine learning technique with origins from the field of statistics. It is a really widely used method for binary classification problems (note: it is not a regression method as its name suggests) but can also be used for multi-class classification problems (e.g. more than 2 classes/labels with one-vs-rest implementation).
Logistic regression is named after the function used at the core of the method, the logistic function.
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