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What are common mistakes to avoid with Logistic Regression

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A common mistake is assuming logistic regression can only predict two classes, when in fact it can be extended to handle more than two categories using techniques like multinomial logistic regression.

Real-world example An email service uses logistic regression to estimate the probability that a message is spam, then marks it as spam if that probability is above a chosen threshold.

Common follow-ups: What is linear regression, What is a confusion matrix, What is the sigmoid function

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