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Logistic regression is a statistical method used for binary classification problems, predicting the probability of a data point belonging to a particular category (usually represented as 0 or 1). Unlike linear regression which predicts a continuous value, logistic regression models the probability using a sigmoid function, which outputs values between 0 and 1. The sigmoid function transforms a linear combination of predictor variables into a probability score. Model training involves finding the optimal parameters that maximize the likelihood of observing the training data. This is often achieved using maximum likelihood estimation or gradient descent. Logistic regression is widely used in various fields like medical diagnosis, spam filtering, and credit risk assessment due to its interpretability and computational efficiency. It's important to note assumptions such as linearity of independent variables and the absence of multicollinearity. Evaluation metrics like accuracy, precision, recall, and the area under the ROC curve (AUC) are used to assess model performance.