Linear Regression as the Simplest Classifier

Posted on Mon 24 February 2020 in Posts • Tagged with machine learning, linear regression, python, scikit-learn, statistical learning

In this post I wanted to describe a simple application of a linear least squares method to a problem of data classification. It is a naive approach and is unlikely to beat more sophisticated techniques like Logistic Regression, for instance.

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