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Cover art: Naive art by Ivan Generalic

Naive Bayes (NB) is 'naive' because it makes the assumption that features of a measurement are independent of each other. This is naive because it is (almost) never true. Here is why NB works anyway.

NB is a very intuitive classification algorithm. It …

Logistic Regression is closely related to Linear Regression. Read my post on Linear Regression here

Logistic Regression is a classification technique, meaning that the target Y is qualitative instead of quantitative. For example, trying to predict whether a customer will stop doing business with you, a.k.a. churn.
Logistic …