Q. You've just finished training a decision tree for spam classification, and it is getting abnormally bad performance on both your training and test sets. You know that your implementation has no bugs, so what could be causing the problem?

  • (A) your decision trees are too shallow.
  • (B) normalizing variables results in the slope being the correlation
  • (C) you are overfitting.
  • (D) incorrect data
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βœ… Correct Answer: (A) your decision trees are too shallow.

Q. Point out the wrong statement.

  • (A) regression through the origin yields an equivalent slope if you center the data first
  • (B) random_state
  • (C) least squares is not an estimation tool
  • (D) none of the mentioned
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βœ… Correct Answer: (C) least squares is not an estimation tool

Q. . . . . . . . . which can accept a NumPy RandomState generator or an integer seed.

  • (A) make_blobs
  • (B) LabelBinarizer class
  • (C) test_size
  • (D) training_size
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βœ… Correct Answer: (B) LabelBinarizer class

Q. . . . . . . . . adopts a dictionary-oriented approach, associating to each category label a progressive integer number.

  • (A) LabelEncoder class
  • (B) 1 and 4
  • (C) DictVectorizer
  • (D) FeatureHasher
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βœ… Correct Answer: (A) LabelEncoder class

Q. Which of the following properties are characteristic of decision trees?
1. High bias
2. High variance
3. Lack of smoothness of prediction surfaces
4. Unbounded parameter set

  • (A) 1 and 2
  • (B) it is the transmission of error back through the network to adjust the inputs
  • (C) 2, 3 and 4
  • (D) all of the above
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βœ… Correct Answer: (C) 2, 3 and 4

Q. The cost parameter in the SVM means:

  • (A) The number of cross-validations to be made
  • (B) The kernel to be used
  • (C) The tradeoff between misclassification and simplicity of the model
  • (D) None of the above
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βœ… Correct Answer: (C) The tradeoff between misclassification and simplicity of the model

Q. his clustering approach initially assumes that each data instance represents a single cluster.

  • (A) expectation maximization
  • (B) k-means clustering
  • (C) agglomerative clustering
  • (D) conceptual clustering
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βœ… Correct Answer: (C) agglomerative clustering

Q. A supervised scenario is characterized by the concept of a . . . . . . . .

  • (A) Programmer
  • (B) Teacher
  • (C) Author
  • (D) Farmer
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βœ… Correct Answer: (B) Teacher

Q. Which of the following sentence is correct?

  • (A) machine learning relates with the study, design and development of the algorithms that give computers the capability to learn without being explicitly programmed.
  • (B) data mining can be defined as the process in which the unstructured data tries to extract knowledge or unknown interesting patterns.
  • (C) both a and b
  • (D) none of the above
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βœ… Correct Answer: (C) both a and b

Q. The maximum likelihood method can be used to explore relationships among more diverse sequences, conditions that are not well handled by maximum parsimony methods.

  • (A) TRUE
  • (B) FALSE
  • (C) -
  • (D) -
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βœ… Correct Answer: (A) TRUE