2.1. Polynomial and Logistic Regression

In this lesson we’ll be looking at 2 more machine learning techniques:

• Polynomial Regression: used for regression (predicting numbers)

• Logistic Regression: used for classification (predicting categories/classes)

Like with linear regression, the name of the machine learning method is named after the shape the model takes. In linear regression, the model is linear, in polynomial regression the model is a polynomial and in logistic regression the model follows the logistic function.

We’ll also see that polynomial and logistic regression are closely related to linear regression.

Linear Regression	Regression
Polynomial Regression	Regression
Logistic Regression	Classification