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Machine learning has changed many industries, including healthcare. The most fundamental concepts in machine learning include (1) supervised learning that has been used to develop risk prediction models for target diseases and (2) unsupervised learning that has been applied to discover unknown disease subtypes.

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    Maybe a confusing name as logistic regression is for classification not for regression. But the naming choice will become meaningful after we explain the mathematical construction.

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    This means UU = I where I is the identity matrix.

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Xiao, C., Sun, J. (2021). Machine Learning Basics. In: Introduction to Deep Learning for Healthcare. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82184-5_3

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