Why Linear Regression is not suitable for Classification

Linear Regression vs Logistic Regression for Classification Tasks

Jingles (Hong Jing)
Towards Data Science
6 min readMay 7, 2019

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This article explains why logistic regression performs better than linear regression for classification problems, and 2 reasons why linear regression is not suitable:

  • the predicted value is continuous, not probabilistic

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