Breastcancer is the leading cause of death among women each year, leaving others in various stages of the disease. Lately,machine learning(ML) has shown great promise for physicians and researchers working towards better outcomes and lowering the cost of treatment. With that in mind, theWisconsin Breast Cancer Data Set represents a combination of suitable features that are useful enough togenerate ML models, models that are able to predict a future diagnostic outcome by learning from predetermined or historical breast mass tissue sample data.
Here is the dataset we refer to:
- UCI Machine Learning Repository: Breast Cancer Wisconsin (Original) Data Set
- UCI Machine Learning Repository: Breast Cancer Wisconsin (Diagnostic) Data Set
- Accessed July 13, 2018
- Website URL: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Breast Cancer Wisconsin (Original)
In this chapter, we will be focusing on implementing and training a logistic...