please follow instructions carefully apa references and count of words and citations must

For your midterm assignment, please make sure to read Chapter 6 of your textbook.

Please provide comprehensive responses to the following:

(a) In the use of a categorical variable with n possible values, explain the following:
1. Why only n – 1 binary variables are necessary
2. Why using n variables would be problematic

(b) Describe how logistic regression can be used as a classifier.

(c) Discuss how the ROC curve can be used to determine an appropriate threshold value for a classifier

(d) If the probability of an event occurring is 0.4, then

1. What is the odds ratio?
2. What is the log odds ratio?

Requirements:

– Typed in a word document.

– Please write in APA Style and include at least Five (5) reputable sources.

– The complete paper should be between 800-to-1000-words.

testbook :EMC Education Service (Eds). (2015) Data Science and Big Data Analytics: Discovering, Analyzing, Visualizing, and Presenting Data, Indianapolis, IN: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.