Mid sem syllabus

Imp Topics

1)Basics of ML

2)Application of ML

3)Types of ML: Supervised, unsupervised

4)Types of Variable

5)Categories of variable/data

6)Measurement scale of variable

Mis Topics

1)Tools used for mining and analysing the data

2)Decision tree

-ID3 – numerical & disadvantages

-C4.5 - disadvantages

-CART

3)Classification and regression

4)Problems with ID3

*Inductive Wires

-Approximate inductive wire

-Closer approximation induction wire

6)Performance measure

7)Cross validation method

8) Steps to design prediction model

9)SVM (linear and non linear both) no numericals , when are these used?

10)KNN (numerical+theory)
11) naïve bayes (numerical+theory)

12) clustering (numerical+theory) -> specific algos -> K means (numerical + theory)

13)ANN (theory + numerical)

-application,advantage , disadvantage,Examples,What type of class algo, multi labled output

class problem

14) Dimensionality reduction (feature selection and feature extraction, Feature Reduction, Filter
method, wrapper method, embedded)

15) PCA numerical + theory

16) ensemble learning (bagging, boosting, staking) detail + internal working (parallely +
sequentially)

17) RF vs DT which is better?

18) tools for ML – weka,spss,python,R,Kul,matlab,octave

19) Activation functions

curse of dimensionality,neural network, single layer nn, multi-layer nn, feed forward nn