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Machine Learning 101 Practice Test: Logistic Regression — Flashcards

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Quiz on logistic regression, hypothesis representation, decision boundary, cost function and gradient descent, logistic regression for multiple classification, and advanced optimization.

Logistic regression is a statistical method that uses math to find relationships between two data factors. It uses these relationships to predict the value of one factor based on the other. 

Logistic regression is a predictive analysis that estimates the probability of an event based on a given dataset. The dataset contains both independent variables, or predictors, and their corresponding dependent variables, or responses. 
For example, logistic regression can be used to model the occurrence or non-occurrence of a disease given predictors such as age, race, and weight. The result is a model that returns a predicted probability of occurrence given certain values of the predictors. 

Logistic regression has been used in many fields, including:
Finding the most influential individuals in a network
GIS
Email spam filtering
Natural language processing
Speech recognition
Finance
Pattern recognition
 
In healthcare, logistic regression uses common variables such as sick/not sick, cancerous/non-cancerous, and malignant/benign.

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