This lecture describes the construction of binary classifiers using a technique called Logistic Regression. The objective is for you to learn: How to apply logistic regression to discriminate between two classes; how to formulate the logistic regression likelihood; how to derive the gradient and Hessian of logistic regression; how to incorporate the gradient vector and Hessian matrix into Newton’s optimization algorithm so as to come up with an algorithm for logistic regression, which we call IRLS.
