linear regression output as probabilities

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Why shouldn’t you use linear regression outputs as probabilities?

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Rohitsingh 55 years 1 Answer 894 views Member 0

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  1. It’s tempting to use linear regression outputs as probabilities but it’s a mistake
    because the output can be negative, and greater than 1 whereas probability can not. As
    regression might actually produce probabilities that could be less than 0, or even bigger
    than 1, logistic regression was introduced.

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