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

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H. ZhouLearn Data Mining Through Excelhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9771-1_6

6. Logistic Regression

Hong Zhou¹  

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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT, USA

 

Please download the sample Excel files from https://github.com/hhohho/Learn-Data-Mining-through-Excel-2 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 ...