6/6/2020 Introduction to Research - - Unit 5 - Week 3 - Data analysis and Modelling skills

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Unit 5 - Week 3 - Data analysis and Modelling skills

Course outline
Assignment 3
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online course work? The due date for submitting this assignment has passed. Due on 2020-03-18, 23:59 IST.

Week 1: Group Assignment submitted on 2020-03-18, 21:27 IST

Discussion on Research
Note: More than one answer may be right. Partial marks awarded if only some of the correct answers are selected. No marks awarded
Week 1: Overview of if even one of the wrong answers is selected:
Research
1) Which of the following statements is true? 1 point

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Week 2: Literature Survey,
Experimental skills
Week 3 - Data analysis
and Modelling skills
Data analysis Part 1 (unit?
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Data analysis Part 2 (unit?
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Modelling skills Part 1
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Modelling skills Part 2
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Text file of data analysis
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Safety in laboratory (unit?
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Quiz : Week 3 Practice
Assignment (assessment?
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Quiz : Assignment 3
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Week 3 Feedback :
Introduction to Research
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Week 4: Technical
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Week 5: Creativity in
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Introduction to Research - - Unit 5 - Week 3 - Data analysis and Modelling skills
Deterministic phenomena produce outcomes that can be predicted accurately.
Random processes occur randomly.
A process can produce a mix of deterministic and stochastic effects.
Signals that are random can never take negative values.
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Deterministic phenomena produce outcomes that can be predicted accurately.
A process can produce a mix of deterministic and stochastic effects.
2) What is / are the feature(s) of a deterministic signal? 1 point
It is always periodic.
Repeated experiments under controlled and identical conditions produce same values.
At any instant in time, there exists only one possible known outcome.
Initial value is zero.
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Repeated experiments under controlled and identical conditions produce same values.
At any instant in time, there exists only one possible known outcome.
3) Identify the correct statement(s) among the following. 1 point
Temperature of atmosphere 10 m. above ground can be treated as random.
Measurement of body temperature is deterministic.
For a given data from a random process, there exists at least one observation less than the mean of observations in that data set.
The population mean of a random variable is also necessarily random.
Partially Correct.
Score: 0.5
Accepted Answers:
Temperature of atmosphere 10 m. above ground can be treated as random.
For a given data from a random process, there exists at least one observation less than the mean of
observations in that data set.
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4) An estimator is said to be most efficient when 1 point

Week 6- Intellectual
property The parameters can be estimated in the least possible time.
The estimator provides accurate estimates with the smallest number of observations.
Week 7- Design of Standard error in the parameter estimates is lowest when compared to that of all other estimators.
Experiments
It estimates parameters accurately even in presence of outliers.

Week 8- Department Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
specific discussions
Accepted Answers:
Standard error in the parameter estimates is lowest when compared to that of all other estimators.
Text Transcripts
5) Identify the correct statement(s) among the following. 1 point
Transcripts Book
Sample and ensemble averages are identical when the data obtained contains all possible outcomes.
Download Videos A statistic and estimator are both mathematical functions of the observed data.
An estimate can have a large bias but low variability and vice versa.
Accuracy is guaranteed when the estimation error vanishes by averaging across all possible data sets of fixed sample size.
Partially Correct.
Score: 0.25
Accepted Answers:
Sample and ensemble averages are identical when the data obtained contains all possible outcomes.
A statistic and estimator are both mathematical functions of the observed data.
An estimate can have a large bias but low variability and vice versa.
Accuracy is guaranteed when the estimation error vanishes by averaging across all possible data sets of
fixed sample size.

6) Identify the correct statement among the following: 1 point

Visualization of data is useful because it gives us an idea of any anomalies and trends in the data.
Robust methods of estimation are meant to handle large amounts of missing values in the data set.

Estimates of parameters less than 10−4 can be neglected in any estimation exercise.
Correlation between the pairs of variables in all four data sets given by Anscombe are identical.
Partially Correct.
Score: 0.5
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Accepted Answers:
Visualization of data is useful because it gives us an idea of any anomalies and trends in the data.
Correlation between the pairs of variables in all four data sets given by Anscombe are identical.

7) Which of the following is true concerning variance of a parameter estimate? 1 point

It is how the estimate varies from one method to another.

Smaller values of parameter estimates have lower variance.
Precision of an estimate is inversely proportional to its variance.
Accurate estimators result in the lowest variability estimates.
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Precision of an estimate is inversely proportional to its variance.

8) Which of the following is true in data-driven analysis? 1 point

Estimating mean of a random variable is an example of predictive analysis.

Exploratory analysis always deals with exploring which variable to measure.
Performing hypothesis test of zero correlation is an example of confirmatory analysis.
Prescriptive analytics involves prescribing a particular method of data analysis.
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Performing hypothesis test of zero correlation is an example of confirmatory analysis.

9) Identify the incorrect statement(s) among the following: 1 point

Estimating the mean of a signal is based on the same procedure regardless of whether the signal is determinstic or stochastic.
Sample mean is the only means of estimating the mean of a stochastic signal.
Expectation of a random variable and its sample average are identical.
Transforming the data into another domain can be useful in visualizing the features of data.
Partially Correct.
Score: 0.67
Accepted Answers:

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Estimating the mean of a signal is based on the same procedure regardless of whether the signal is
determinstic or stochastic.
Sample mean is the only means of estimating the mean of a stochastic signal.
Expectation of a random variable and its sample average are identical.

10) Which of the following is true concerning a parameter estimate? 1 point

It can be quite often equal to the true value.

When averaged across a thousand data sets, the estimate can have lower error than that from a single record.
The maximum value is obtained when the sample size is very large.
The most efficient estimate is not necessarily the most accurate.
Partially Correct.
Score: 0.5
Accepted Answers:
When averaged across a thousand data sets, the estimate can have lower error than that from a single
record.
The most efficient estimate is not necessarily the most accurate.

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