What is the difference between linear regression and logistic regression?

Question

When we have to predict the value of a categorical (or discrete) outcome we use logistic regression. I believe we use linear regression to also predict the value of an outco

Answer 1

Simply put, linear regression is a regression algorithm, which outpus a possible continous and infinite value; logistic regression is considered as a binary classifier algorithm, which outputs the 'probability' of the input belonging to a label (0 or 1).