What are the advantages and disadvantages of logistic regression?

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advantages and disadvantages of logistic regression
Advantages and Disadvantages of Logistic Regression

Logistic regression is a classification algorithm used to predict the probability of a binary or categorical outcome based on one or more independent variables. The algorithm learns a linear relationship from the input dataset and applies a non-linear transformation through the use of the Sigmoid function. The advantages and disadvantages of logistic regression are presented below.

Advantages of Logistic Regression:

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Disadvantages of Logistic Regression:

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Video Explanation

The following video from Data Unite walks through the advantages and disadvantages of Logistic Regression (Initial 2:20m of the video focuses on Advantages/Disadvantages) :

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