Chapter 03.03: Linear Classifiers
Linear classifiers are an essential subclass of classification models. This section provides the definition of a linear classifier and depicts differences between linear and non-linear decision boundaries.
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## Which statements are true?
- [x] Classification is part of supervised learning.
- [ ] Scoring classifiers always output numbers between 0 and 1.
- [x] Probabilistic classifiers always output numbers between 0 and 1.
- [x] With scoring classifiers one can obtain class labels by using a threshold.
- [ ] The decision boundary does not depend on the model used.
## Which statements are true?
- [x] For the discriminant approach we must have a loss function for minimization.
- [ ] The generative and discriminant approach are basically the same.
- [x] The generative approach is a probabilistic approach.
- [ ] Binary classification uses two discriminant functions.
- [ ] Linear classifiers can just learn linear decision boundaries.
- [x] Logistic regression is an example for the discriminant approach.
- [x] Linear classifiers specify the discriminant function with linear functions.