Saniivani College ofEngineering, Koparga

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Department of Computir Engineering
subiect: Data Mining and ,r.un"llil::t;3ffi:5:a"r$ B.rech, sEM: vrr A.y:2022-23
Unit II: Data preprocessing
Practice Questions
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Question CO BTt
No.
1.. D ata quali ty can b e assessed in
terms of sever al iss ues, in cluding 2
accuracy, com pleten ess, and consistency. 4
Fo r each of the a bove
three issues, d iscuss how da ta q uality
ass essment can depen d on
the inte nded us e of the vi exam es.
2. I n real-worl d data, tupl ES with missing
val ues for som e attributes 2
are a commo n o ccurrence. Descri 4
b e varr ous m eth ods fo r
this br em
3 In th e fol Iowing data ( n ncreasing
orderl fo r the a ttrib ute age:
1 3, L 5, 1. 6, 1. 6, 1. 9 ) 0, 20, Z 'J., 2 2 4
2 2 2, 2 5, 2 5, 2 5, 2 5 3 0, 3 J, 3 J
35 3 5, J q, 3 6, 40, 4 5, 46, 52, 7 0. 35,

Ia) Urse smo othi ng by bi n mean s to SM ooth th CS e data,

us ing a bi n
depth of 3. Ilustrate you r steps. Co
m m e nt o n th e effect of thi S
techn lq ue for the gi ven data.
tbl H OW might yo u determi ne o utli ers in the data ?
c What other metho ds are rh
e re for data sm oothi
4. D rscuss issues to consi der duri
data n.
5 What are the values rangeS of the follo wing 2 4
normalization 2 +
methods?
[aJ min-max normalization
(bJ z-score normalization
[c) z-score normalization using the mean absolute deviation
instead of standard deviation
n ormalizatio n d ecimal scal
6. U sing the data for age gi ven n Sr .N
o 3 answer th e fol lowi ng:
2 4
taJ Use mi n- m ax n ormalizati on to tran sform the val u e 3 5 fo r
age
on to the 0 1.. 0
7 Suppose a group of 1 2 sales pri ce records
has been sorted as Z 4
follows:
5 1. 0, L 1_, 1. 3, 1 5 3 5 5 0 5 5 7 2, 9
2, 2 04, 2 L5
Partitio n th em into three bi ns by ea ch o f
the fo lowing metho ds
Ial e qual -freq uency ( eq ual d epth) parti ti oning
(b ) equal-width partiti oning
c cl
B. Use a flowchart to s u marize
th e following p roced ures for 2
attribute subset selection: 4
[a) stepwise forward selection
backward elimination

Prepared by: 1. Dr. A. B .pawar

Approved B. Kshirsagar
2. Dr.K.Vengtesan
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