What is the basic purpose of Logistic Regression in Machine Learning?

Options

  • A. To estimate the probability of an observation belonging to a class
  • B. To construct only hierarchical clusters
  • C. To find the shortest path in a graph
  • D. To store labeled data in a database
  • E. None of the above

Correct Answer (Detailed Explanation is Below)

A. To estimate the probability of an observation belonging to a class

Detailed Explanation

Logistic Regression is a supervised learning algorithm mainly used for classification problems. It models the probability of an observation belonging to a particular class and commonly uses a sigmoid function in binary classification.