Pergunta de entrevista da empresa Google

Why we can not use linear regression for dependent variable with binary outcomes

Respostas da entrevista

Sigiloso

5 de dez. de 2014

Because of the decision boundary

Sigiloso

28 de fev. de 2018

Because linear regression produces values beyond the range [0,1], and also because the underlying assumptions of equal and normally distributed error terms will be violated (errors will be distributed binary instead)