Lecture 19 – Logistic Regression Part 2, Classification

Presented by Fernando Perez

Content by Suraj Rampure, Fernando Perez, Josh Hug, Joseph Gonzalez, Ani Adhikari

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19.1
Using thresholds to convert from predicted probabilities to classifications.
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19.2
Defining several metrics of classifier performance – accuracy, precision, and recall. Confusion matrices.
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Using scikit-learn to compute accuracy, precision, recall, and confusion matrices.
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Exploring how threshold impacts accuracy, precision, and recall. Precision-recall curves. ROC curves. AUC.
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Exploring the decision boundaries that result from a logistic regression classifier, and their relationship to the model's parameters.
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Linear separability. Why we sometimes need regularization for logistic regression.
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Summary. Brief introduction to multiclass classification.
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