The Logistic Regression Algorithm – Towards Data Science

Like many other machine learning techniques, it is borrowed from the field of statistics and despite its name, it is not an algorithm for regression problems, where you want to predict a continuous outcome. Instead, Logistic Regression is the go-to method for binary classification. It gives you a discrete binary outcome between 0 and 1. To say it in simpler words, it's outcome is either one thing or another. A simple example of a Logistic Regression problem would be an algorithm used for cancer detection that takes screening picture as an input and should tell if a patient has cancer (1) or not (0).