Applying logistic regression and SVM

Linear Classifiers in Python

Michael (Mike) Gelbart

Instructor, The University of British Columbia

Using LogisticRegression

from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression

lr = LogisticRegression()

lr.fit(X_train, y_train)

lr.predict(X_test)

lr.score(X_test, y_test)

LogisticRegression example

import sklearn.datasets
wine = sklearn.datasets.load_wine()

from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
lr = LogisticRegression()
lr.fit(wine.data, wine.target)

lr.score(wine.data, wine.target)

0.966

lr.predict_proba(wine.data[:1])

array([[9.966e-01, 2.740e-03, 6.787e-04]])

Using LinearSVC

LinearSVC works the same way:

import sklearn.datasets

wine = sklearn.datasets.load_wine()

from sklearn.svm import LinearSVC

svm = LinearSVC()

svm.fit(wine.data, wine.target)

svm.score(wine.data, wine.target)

0.955

Using SVC

import sklearn.datasets
wine = sklearn.datasets.load_wine()

from sklearn.svm import SVC
svm = SVC()
svm.fit(wine.data, wine.target);

svm.score(wine.data, wine.target)

0.708

Model complexity review:

Underfitting: model is too simple, low training accuracy
Overfitting: model is too complex, low test accuracy

Let's practice!

Linear Classifiers in Python