Hello helpers,

I am trying to do a logistic regression matlab code but with no success. Kindly could you indicate any mistakes did please.

Thankyou

 

I've done a lot of Math, but I have to admit that I've never heard of the concept. Can you offer a bit of explanation? Maybe I know it by a different name.

 

Thank you for your help,
In my words Logistic regression is classification algorithm that makes a boundary(line) between two sets of data which can be for example pass or fail. Its activation function is the sigmoid function when the input is fed in the sigmoid its gives almost for all values one or zero. The sigmoid is function is
For my case z is a straight line z=intercept+gradient*datapoint(y=c+mx)
where the gradient decent formula is is similar to linear regression

In my code I tried to find the intercept and the gradient of the boundary line by gradient decent but something in my code is not working as should be. Please could you give me some hints to discover my mistakes please.

Thank you

 

I don't think you need to go to that level of difficulty. You know the point (0, 0.5) is on the curve. The slope of an approximating line (not a tangent line) will be given by the derivative of S(z) as z approaches zero from either the left or the right. Once you have the slope you can write the equation of a line with the point slope formula and determine the y-intercept. Can you compute the derivative of S(z) as z approaches 0?

It also looks like an inflection point where the first derivative has a maximum which means the second derivative should have a zero.