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This document contains instructions for a mid-semester test in the course "Data Mining" for students in the M.Tech Data Science and Engineering program. The test contains 4 questions worth a total of 30 marks to be completed within 90 minutes. Question 1 has 3 parts worth 6 marks, Question 2 has 4 parts worth 8 marks, Question 3 has 2 parts worth 8 marks, and Question 4 has 3 parts worth 8 marks. The questions cover topics such as data mining activities, preprocessing datasets, decision trees, and association rule mining.

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Mid-Semester Regular Data Mining QP v1 PDF

This document contains instructions for a mid-semester test in the course "Data Mining" for students in the M.Tech Data Science and Engineering program. The test contains 4 questions worth a total of 30 marks to be completed within 90 minutes. Question 1 has 3 parts worth 6 marks, Question 2 has 4 parts worth 8 marks, Question 3 has 2 parts worth 8 marks, and Question 4 has 3 parts worth 8 marks. The questions cover topics such as data mining activities, preprocessing datasets, decision trees, and association rule mining.

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Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani

Work-Integrated Learning Programmes Division


First Semester 2019-2020
M.Tech (Data Science and Engineering)
Mid-Semester Test (EC-2 Regular)

Course No. : DSECF ZC415


Course Title : DATA MINING
Nature of Exam : Closed Book
Weightage : 30% No. of Pages =2
Duration : 90 Minutes No. of Questions = 4
Date of Exam : 23/06/2019 (AN)
Note:
1. Please follow all the Instructions to Candidates given on the cover page of the answer book.
2. All parts of a question should be answered consecutively. Each answer should start from a fresh page.
3. Assumptions made if any, should be stated clearly at the beginning of your answer.
Answer All the Questions (only in the pages mentioned against questions. if you need more
pages, continue remaining answers from page 20 onwards)

Question 1: [2 + 2 + 2 = 6] [to be answered only in pages 1-4]

Q.1 (a) Identify which of the following activities is a data mining activity. Justify your answer.
1) Computing the total sales of a company.
2) Predicting the outcomes of tossing a (fair) pair of dice.
3) Predicting the future stock price of a company using historical records.
4) Dividing the customers of a company according to their demographics.

Q.1 (b) Consider that following employee data set made available to you for carrying out some data
mining activity. What are the four potential issues with this dataset?
Name Age DateOfJoining Designation DateOfBirth
A 34 15-Jan-2015 Sr Engineer Feb 24, 1981
B 33 27-Jan-2015 Mar 27, 1982
A 34 15-Jan-2015 Sr Engineer Feb 24, 1981
C 32 30-Jan-2015 Staff Engineer Nov 25,1982

Q.1 (c) Statistical inference may indirectly facilitate the data preparation phase while pre-processing.
In light to this how the following inference can be used?
“A variable X is positively & uniformly correlated with another variable Y”

Question 2: [2+1+1+4 = 8 Marks] [to be answered only in pages 5-9]

Q.2. Consider the following ordered list of observations of a variable. Answer the following:
25, 25, 30, 33, 33, 35, 35, 35, 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 42, 99

(a) What is the five-number summary for the given data?


(b) Draw boxplot.
(c) Identify the outliers if any.
(d) Explain, how do the outliers affect the measures of central tendency (Mean, and Median)
of data? Comment using the given data set.

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Question 3: [5+3 = 8 Marks] [to be answered only in pages 10-13]

Q.3 (a) The following dataset describes the data received on 14 patients and their status on diabetes.
Considering decision tree classifier to this binary classification problem, identify the attribute
selection among Exercise, Blood pressure level at the root node using Entropy and
information gain computation.
Sl# Blood
pressure Follow
Exercise level good diet ? Class
1 Yes High No - ve
2 Yes High Yes +ve
3 No High No +
4 Moderate High No +
5 Moderate Normal No +
6 Moderate Normal Yes -
7 No Normal Yes +
8 Yes High No -
9 Yes Normal No +
10 Moderate Normal No +
11 Yes Normal Yes +
12 No High Yes +
13 No Normal No +
14 Moderate High Yes -
Q.3 (b) Following table shows results of classification for a 2-class problem. Consider ‘Y’ and ‘N’ as
two classes. Calculate the F-score of the classifier for class ‘Y’.
Predicted Class Y N
Actual Class
Y 900 100 1000
N 200 800 1000
1100 900 2000

Question 4: [3+3+2 = 8 Marks] [to be answered only in pages 14-17]


Q.4. Pantaloons wants to identify possible cases of bundle pricing. Consider the following dataset with
five transactions and the associated list of items. Answer the following questions using Apriori
algorithm:
Transaction ID Itemset
1 SHIRT, SHOES, BELT, SOCKS, WATCH, SHOEPOLISH
2 TROUSERS, SHOES, BELT, SOCKS, WATCH, SHOEPOLISH
3 SHIRT, JEANS, SHOEPOLISH, SOCKS
4 SHIRT, TIE, SANDAL, SHOEPOLISH, WATCH
5 SANDAL, SHOES, SHOEPOLISH, SOCKS
(a) Given the minimum support count of 3, Generating all the frequent itemsets.
(b) Considering the minimum confidence threshold as 75%, Identify the Association Rules
from the frequent itemsets generated in (a) above.
(c) Identify the products which are suitable for bundle pricing based on the final
association rules, using the min support and min confidence values as provided
above.

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