Data Science Quiz

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Question 1

What is the purpose of the term "feature engineering" in machine learning?

  • Extracting valuable information from the target variable

  • Creating new features or modifying existing ones to improve model performance

  • Selecting the most important features for model training

  • Normalizing feature values to have zero mean and unit variance

Question 2

In machine learning, what is feature scaling?

  • Modifying features to have comparable scales

  • Creating new features from existing ones

  • Removing irrelevant features from the dataset

  • Encoding categorical variables

Question 3

What is the primary purpose of the term "word embedding" in natural language processing (NLP)?

  • Representing words as sparse binary vectors

  • Encoding words into numerical vectors with continuous values

  • Tokenizing sentences into individual words

  • Reducing the dimensionality of word representations

Question 4

In statistics, what does the term "p-value" represent in hypothesis testing?

  • The probability of making a Type II error

  • The probability of observing the data given that the null hypothesis is true

  • The significance level for the test

  • The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis

Question 5

Explain the concept of the "bias-variance trade-off" in machine learning.

  • The trade-off between the number of features and model complexity

  • Balancing precision and recall in classification problems

  • The trade-off between model flexibility and stability

  • Minimizing both training and testing errors

Question 6

What is the purpose of the term "Bayesian inference" in statistics and machine learning?

  • Estimating parameters based on prior knowledge and observed data

  • Fitting models to the training data using maximum likelihood estimation

  • Combining predictions from multiple models using Bayesian averaging

  • Evaluating models using cross-validation

Question 7

What is the role of the "learning rate" in gradient descent optimization?

  • The size of the steps taken during each iteration

  • The regularization strength applied to the mod

  • The number of iterations in the optimization process

  • The speed at which the algorithm converges

Question 8

Explain the term "Gini impurity" in the context of decision trees.

  • A measure of impurity or disorder in a set of data

  • A measure of information gain in feature selection

  • A criterion used to split nodes in a decision tree

  • A method for pruning decision trees

Question 9

What is the role of the term "dropout" in neural networks?

  • Improving model interpretability

  • Reducing the learning rate during training

  • Introducing non-linearity to the model

  • Preventing overfitting by randomly dropping neurons during training

Question 10

Explain the term "precision" in the context of binary classification.

  • The ratio of true positive predictions to the total positive predictions

  • The ratio of true positive predictions to the sum of true positives and false negatives

  • The ratio of true positive predictions to the sum of true positives and false positives

  • The ratio of true positive predictions to the total predictions made by the model

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