Tutorial 2

Answer the following question.

1. Name some Logistic regression problems and deeply explain one of
them.
Logistic regression, for example, could be used to predict if a high school
student will be accepted to a particular university, or if a political
candidate will win or lose an election, or if the student can pass the exam,
or in healthcare, to identify risk factors for diseases and plan preventive
measures
For student will be accepted to an university or not, the resulting
analytical model can take into consideration multiple input criteria. In the
case of college acceptance, the model could consider factors such as the
student’s grade point average, National Exam score and number of
extracurricular activities. Based on historical data about earlier outcomes
involving the same input criteria, it then scores new cases on their
probability of falling into a particular outcome category.
Another example of this is if a student will pass or fail an exam when the
number of hours spent studying is provided as a feature and the variables
for the response has two values: pass and fail.
2. What is classification and Can Logistic regression solve a classification
problem?
Classification refers to a predictive modeling problem where a class label
is predicted for a given example of input data. For instance:
 Given an example, classify if it is spam or not.
 Given a handwritten character, classify it as one of the known
characters.
 Given recent user behavior, classify as churn or not.
Logistic Regression can be used to classify the observations using
different types of data and can easily determine the most effective
variables used for the classification.
3. What is supervised and un-supervised problems?
Supervised and un-supervised are two approaches to use in labeled
datasets. To put it simply, supervised learning uses labeled input and
output data, while an unsupervised learning algorithm does not. In
supervised learning, the algorithm “learns” from the training dataset by
iteratively making predictions on the data and adjusting for the correct
answer. Unsupervised learning models, in contrast, work on their own to
discover the inherent structure of unlabeled data.