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Kevin Jolly
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Kevin Jolly is a formally educated data scientist with a master's degree in data science from the prestigious King's College London. Kevin works as a statistical analyst with a digital healthcare start-up, Connido Limited, in London, where he is primarily involved in leading the data science projects that the company undertakes. He has built machine learning pipelines for small and big data, with a focus on scaling such pipelines into production for the products that the company has built. Kevin is also the author of a book titled Hands-On Data Visualization with Bokeh, published by Packt. He is the editor-in-chief of Linear, a weekly online publication on data science software and products.
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Understanding logistic regression mathematically

As the name implies, logistic regression is fundamentally derived from the linear regression algorithm. The linear regression algorithm will be discussed in depth in the upcoming chapters. For now, let's consider a hypothetical case in which we want to predict the probability that a particular loan will default based on the loan's interest rate. Using linear regression, the following equation can be constructed:

Default = (Interest Rate × x) + c

In the preceding equation, c is the intercept and x is a coefficient that will be the output from the logistic regression model. The intercept and the coefficient will have numeric values. For the purpose of this example, let's assume c is 5 and x is -0.2. The equation now becomes this:

Default = (Interest Rate × -0.2) + 5

The equation can be represented in a...

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Kevin Jolly

Kevin Jolly is a formally educated data scientist with a master's degree in data science from the prestigious King's College London. Kevin works as a statistical analyst with a digital healthcare start-up, Connido Limited, in London, where he is primarily involved in leading the data science projects that the company undertakes. He has built machine learning pipelines for small and big data, with a focus on scaling such pipelines into production for the products that the company has built. Kevin is also the author of a book titled Hands-On Data Visualization with Bokeh, published by Packt. He is the editor-in-chief of Linear, a weekly online publication on data science software and products.
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