The goal of a machine learning binary classification problem is to predict a variable that has exactly two possible values. For example, you might want to predict the sex of a company employee (male = ...

In recent columns we showed how linear regression can be used to predict a continuous dependent variable given other independent variables 1,2. When the dependent variable is categorical, a common ...

The goal of a binary classification problem is to make a prediction that can be one of just two possible values. For example, you might want to predict the sex (male or female) of a person based on ...