Q. How does the bias-variance decomposition of a ridge regression estimator compare with that of ordinary least squares regression?

  • (A) ridge has larger bias, larger variance
  • (B) classification problems require the output attribute to be categorical.
  • (C) ridge has larger bias, smaller variance
  • (D) ridge has smaller bias, smaller variance
πŸ’¬ Discuss
βœ… Correct Answer: (C) ridge has larger bias, smaller variance

Q. What is the precision value for following confusion matrix of binary classification?

  • (A) 0.91
  • (B) by creating new rules
  • (C) 0.9
  • (D) 0.95
πŸ’¬ Discuss
βœ… Correct Answer: (B) by creating new rules

Q. Multinomial Nave Bayes Classifier is . . . . . . . . distribution

  • (A) continuous
  • (B) discrete
  • (C) binary
  • (D) none of these
πŸ’¬ Discuss
βœ… Correct Answer: (B) discrete

Q. Which of the following statements about Naive Bayes is incorrect?

  • (A) Attributes are equally important.
  • (B) Attributes are statistically dependent of one another given the class value.
  • (C) Attributes are statistically independent of one another given the class value.
  • (D) Attributes can be nominal or numeric
πŸ’¬ Discuss
βœ… Correct Answer: (B) Attributes are statistically dependent of one another given the class value.

Q. In Apriori algorithm, if 1 item-sets are 100, then the number of candidate 2 item-sets are

  • (A) 100
  • (B) 200
  • (C) 4950
  • (D) 5000
πŸ’¬ Discuss
βœ… Correct Answer: (C) 4950

Q. Generally, an ensemble method works better, if the individual base models have . . . . . . . .?
Note: Suppose each individual base models have accuracy greater than 50%.

  • (A) less correlation among predictions
  • (B) high correlation among predictions
  • (C) correlation does not have any impact on ensemble output
  • (D) none of the above
πŸ’¬ Discuss
βœ… Correct Answer: (A) less correlation among predictions

Q. Techniques involve the usage of both labeled and unlabeled data is called . . . . . . . .

  • (A) Supervised
  • (B) Semi-supervised
  • (C) Unsupervised
  • (D) None of the above
πŸ’¬ Discuss
βœ… Correct Answer: (B) Semi-supervised

Q. True or False: Ensemble learning can only be applied to supervised learning methods.

  • (A) TRUE
  • (B) kernelpca
  • (C) ---
  • (D) ---
πŸ’¬ Discuss
βœ… Correct Answer: (B) kernelpca

Q. If two variables are correlated, is it necessary that they have a linear relationship?

  • (A) Yes
  • (B) id3
  • (C) ---
  • (D) ---
πŸ’¬ Discuss
βœ… Correct Answer: (B) id3

Q. Let's say, a "Linear regression" model perfectly fits the training data (train error is zero). Now, Which of the following statement is true?

  • (A) You will always have test error zero
  • (B) You can not have test error zero
  • (C) Both A and B
  • (D) None of these
πŸ’¬ Discuss
βœ… Correct Answer: (C) Both A and B