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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE AND LOGISTIC
REGRESSION
Jude Chukwura Obi
1
Obimuanya Ijeoma
2
1 2
Department of Statistics, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
University, Anambra State,
Nigeria
Email:
oj.obi@coou.edu.ng
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Obimuanyaijeoma9@gmail.com
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Abstract
Two machine learning tools namely the Support Vector Machine (SVM)
and the Logistics
Regression (LR) have been studied. Both tools are binary classifiers and have been discovered to
have different approaches to classification. The objective of the study includes: to find out which
method is consistently better than the other; to find out why any of the two classifiers consistently
performs better than the other, if this is true; to find out if specific datasets would require the use
of a particular classifier than the other; to compare their accuracy; to draw conclusions based on
the results of the comparison. The study adopted the secondary source of data collection which
was largely sourced from internet. The statistical tools employed for the data analysis include
accuracy rate, one-way analysis of variance that was used to the test
the significance of the
accuracy measures. The findings of the study show that there is no significant difference between
the SVM Gaussian and Linear Kernel but there was significant difference between SVM Gaussian
and LR. Based on the accuracy rates of the classifiers on the different datasets used in the study,
the findings reveal that SVM using the Gaussian kernel was far better a classifier than LR.