Machine Learning Week 3: Classification using Logistic Regression Intro

Although the name of the algorithm is logistic regression, the value prediction has nothing to with regression as in the case of linear regression. Logistic regression is one of the algorithms used for Classification types of problems and not for regression. For classification problems, the linear function won’t fit so naturally.

However, we can still say classification problem is just like the regression problem, except that the values y we now want to predict take on only a small number of discrete values.