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T. C. NokeriData Science Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6870-4_5

5. Logistic Regression Analysis

Tshepo Chris Nokeri1  
(1)
Pretoria, South Africa
 

This chapter covers the logistic regression concept and implementation in a structured way. Preceding chapters introduced supervised learning and concentrated on the parametric method. In supervised learning, we present a model with a set of correct answers, and we then allow a model to predict unseen data. We use the parametric method to solve regression problems (when a dependent variable is a continuous variable).

This chapter introduces a supervised learning method recognized as the nonparametric method ...

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