STINTSY Quiz 4

Which of the following is the primary goal of logistic regression?

• Minimize the sum of squared errors.

• Predict a continuous dependent variable.

• • Predict a categorical dependent variable.

• Maximize the R-squared value.

In logistic regression, what is the role of the sigmoid function?

• To predict continuous values.

• To transform linear outputs into a probability between 0 and 1.

• To calculate the sum of squared errors.

• To minimize overfitting.

What is the precision for the Merit class?

• 0.77

• 0.82

• 0.81

• 0.90

What is the recall for the Comedy class?

• 0.70

• 0.77

• 0.80

• 0.87

A bank uses logistic regression to predict whether a customer is committing loan fraud. The model makes the following predictions on a set of 100 customers:

• True Positives (TP): 30

• False Positives (FP): 10

• False Negatives (FN): 20

• True Negatives (TN): 40

What is the fitting metric of the model?

• precision: 0.60

• recall: 0.75

• recall: 0.80

• precision: 0.85