Logistic Regression with Scikit-Learn — A Quickstart Guide

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Logistic regression is a machine learning technique for binary classification. It predicts the probability of the binary outcome based on one or more independent variables. On the other hand, the dependent variable, which is the outcome you are trying to predict, is binary. This means that it has only two possible outcomes, usually represented as 0 and 1.