It’s been awhile since I wrote the last blog on the data mining / machine learning algorithms. I described the Neural Network algorithm. In addition, it is a good time to write another post in order to remind the readers of the two upcoming seminars about the algorithms I have in Oslo, Friday, September 2nd, 2016, and in Cambridge, Thursday, September 8th. Hope to see you in one of the seminars. Finally, to conclude this marketing part: if you are interested in the R language, I am preparing another seminar “EmbRace R”, which will cover R from basics to advanced analytics. Stay tuned.
Now for the algorithm. If you remember the post, a Neural network has an input, an output, and one or more hidden layers. The Neural Network algorithm uses the hyperbolic tangent activation function in the hidden layer and the sigmoid function in output layer. However, the Sigmoid function is called the Logistic function as well. Therefore, describing the Logistic Regression algorithm is simple after I described the Neural Network. If a neural network has only input neurons that are directly connected to the output neurons, it is a Logistic Regression. Or, to repeat the same thing in a different way: Logistic Regression is Neural Network with zero hidden layers.
This was quick:-) To add more meat to the post, I am adding the formulas and the graphs for the hyperbolic tangent and sigmoid functions.
