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1) Suppose you are using a bagging based algorithm say a Random Forest in model 1 point
building. Which of the following can be true?

Week-2

1. Number of tree should be as large as possible

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2. You will have interpretability after using Random Forest

Week-4
Only 1

Only 2
Week-5

Both 1 and 2

Week-6
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2) To apply bagging to regression trees which of the following is/are true in such case 1 point
Week-7 ?

Decision Trees
1. We build the N regression with N bootstrap sample

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Analytics
2. We take the average the of N regression tree

(unit? 3. Each tree has a high variance with low bias

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1 and 2
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2 and 3
Predictive
Analytics
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3) In which of the following scenario a gain ratio is preferred over Information Gain ? 1 point
Big Data
Predictive
When a categorical variable has very small number of category
Analytics
(Part-II) (unit?

Number of categories is the not the reason
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When a categorical variable has very large number of category

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X material (unit? 4) Which of the following is/are true about Random Forest and Gradient Boosting 1 point
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Week 7 (unit? 1. Both methods can be used for classification task

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3. Random Forest is use for regression whereas Gradient Boosting is use for Classification
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  5) Given an attribute table shown below, which stores the basic information of attribute 1 point
a, including the row identifier of instance row_id , values of attribute values (a) and class labels of
instances  c.

   

Which of the following attribute will first provide the pure subset ?

Humidity

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6) True or False ?
1 point

Bagging provides an averaging over a set of possible datasets, removing noisy and non-stable
parts of models.

True

False

7) Hundreds of trees can be aggregated to form a Random forest model. Which of the 1 point
following is true about any individual tree in Random Forest?

1. Individual tree is built on a subset of the features

2. Individual tree is built on all the features

3. Individual tree is built on a subset of observations

4. Individual tree is built on full set of observations

1 and 3

1 and 4

2 and 3

2 and 4

8) Boosting any algorithm takes into consideration the weak learners. Which of the 1 point
following is the main reason behind using weak learners ?

Reason I-To prevent overfitting

Reason II- To prevent underfitting

Reason I

Reason II

Both the Reasons

None of the Reasons

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