Learn Data Mining Through Excel: A Step-by-Step Approach for Understanding Machine Learning Methods

© Hong Zhou 2020

H. ZhouLearn Data Mining Through Excelhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5982-5_6

6. Logistic Regression

Hong Zhou¹ 

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University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT, USA

 

Please download the sample Excel files from https://github.com/hhohho/Learn-Data-Mining-through-Excel for this chapter’s exercises.

General Understanding

Logistic regression can be thought of as a special case of linear regression when the predicted outcomes are categorical. If there are only two outcomes, the logistic regression is called binomial logistic regression which is the most popular one. If there are more than two outcomes, the logistic regression is called multinomial logistic regression. In this chapter, we are learning binomial logistic regression in ...