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Questions and Answers: SAS Institute A00-240

This document contains 6 questions and answers from a SAS certification exam on statistical business analysis using SAS 9 for regression and modeling. The questions cover topics like ROC curves, mean imputation, generating sensitivity and specificity statistics, acceptable data partitioning methods, stratifying data into training and validation sets, and interpreting a lift chart.

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Questions and Answers: SAS Institute A00-240

This document contains 6 questions and answers from a SAS certification exam on statistical business analysis using SAS 9 for regression and modeling. The questions cover topics like ROC curves, mean imputation, generating sensitivity and specificity statistics, acceptable data partitioning methods, stratifying data into training and validation sets, and interpreting a lift chart.

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Questions and Answers

Vendor: SAS Institute


Exam Code: A00-240
Exam Name:
SAS Certified Statistical Business Analyst Using SAS
9: Regression and Modeling Credential
Demo

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SAS Institute A00-240 Exam

QUESTION NO: 1
Refer to the ROC curve:

As you move along the curve, what changes?

A. The priors in the population


B. The true negative rate in the population
C. The proportion of events in the training data
D. The probability cutoff for scoring

Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 2
When mean imputation is performed on data after the data is partitioned for honest
assessment,

what is the most appropriate method for handling the mean imputation?

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A. The sample means from the validation data set are applied to the training and test data sets.
B. The sample means from the training data set are applied to the validation and test data sets.
C. The sample means from the test data set are applied to the training and validation data sets.
D. The sample means from each partition of the data are applied to their own partition.

Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 3
An analyst generates a model using the LOGISTIC procedure. They are now interested in getting
the sensitivity and specificity statistics on a validation data set for a variety of cutoff values.

Which statement and option combination will generate these statistics?

A. Scoredata=valid1 out=roc;
B. Scoredata=valid1 outroc=roc;
C. mode1resp(event= '1') = gender region/outroc=roc;
D. mode1resp(event"1") = gender region/ out=roc;

Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 4
In partitioning data for model assessment, which sampling methods are acceptable? (Choose
two.)

A. Simple random sampling without replacement


B. Simple random sampling with replacement
C. Stratified random sampling without replacement
D. Sequential random sampling with replacement

Answer: A,C

QUESTION NO: 5
Which SAS program will divide the original data set into 60% training and 40% validation data
sets, stratified by county?

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A. Option A
B. Option B
C. Option C
D. Option D

Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 6
Refer to the lift chart:

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At a depth of 0.1, Lift = 3.14. What does this mean?

A. Selecting the top 10% of the population scored by the model should result in 3.14 times
more events than a random draw of 10%.
B. Selecting the observations with a response probability of at least 10% should result in 3.14
times more events than a random draw of 10%.
C. Selecting the top 10% of the population scored by the model should result in 3.14
timesgreater accuracy than a random draw of 10%.
D. Selecting the observations with a response probability of atleast 10% should result in
3.14times greater accuracy than a random draw of 10%.

Answer: A

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