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Quiz 10 - Regression, Cluster Analysis, & Association Analysis

The document contains a 12 question quiz on regression, cluster analysis, and association analysis techniques. The questions cover key differences between classification and regression, examples of regression, the purpose of the least squares method in linear regression, differences between simple and multiple linear regression, the goal of cluster analysis, uses of cluster results, definitions of a cluster centroid and item set, and measures like support and confidence used in association analysis.

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Quiz 10 - Regression, Cluster Analysis, & Association Analysis

The document contains a 12 question quiz on regression, cluster analysis, and association analysis techniques. The questions cover key differences between classification and regression, examples of regression, the purpose of the least squares method in linear regression, differences between simple and multiple linear regression, the goal of cluster analysis, uses of cluster results, definitions of a cluster centroid and item set, and measures like support and confidence used in association analysis.

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Quiz 10 - Regression, Cluster Analysis, &

Association Analysis
1. What is the main difference between classification and
regression?

 In classification, you're predicting a number, and in regression, you're predicting


a category.
 There is no difference since you're predicting a numeric value from the input
variables in both tasks.
 In classification, you're predicting a category, and in regression, you're
predicting a number.
 In classification, you're predicting a categorical variable, and in regression, you're
predicting a nominal variable.

2. Which of the following is NOT an example of regression?

 Predicting the price of a stock


 Estimating the amount of rain
 Determining whether power usage will rise or fall
 Predicting the demand for a product

3. In linear regression, the least squares method is used to

 Determine the distance between two pairs of samples.


 Determine whether the target is categorical or numerical.
 Determine the regression line that best fits the samples.
 Determine how to partition the data into training and test sets.

4. How does simple linear regression differ from multiple linear


regression?

 In simple linear regression, the input has only categorical variables. In multiple
linear regression, the input can be a mix of categorical and numerical variables.
 In simple linear regression, the input has only one variable. In multiple
linear regression, the input has more than one variables.
 In simple linear regression, the input has only categorical variables. In multiple
linear regression, the input has only numerical variables.
 They are the just different terms for linear regression with one input variable.
5. The goal of cluster analysis is

 To segment data so that differences between samples in the same cluster are
maximized and differences between samples of different clusters are minimized.
 To segment data so that all samples are evenly divided among the clusters.
 To segment data so that all categorical variables are in one cluster, and all
numerical variables are in another cluster.
 To segment data so that differences between samples in the same cluster
are minimized and differences between samples of different clusters are
maximized.

6. Cluster results can be used to

 Determine anomalous samples


 Segment the data into groups so that each group can be analyzed further
 Classify new samples
 Create labeled samples for a classification task
 All of these choices are valid uses of the resulting clusters.

7. A cluster centroid is

 The mean of all the samples in the two closest clusters.


 The mean of all the samples in the cluster
 The mean of all the samples in the two farthest clusters.
 The mean of all the samples in all clusters

8. The main steps in the k-means clustering algorithm are

 Assign each sample to the closest centroid, then calculate the new centroid.
 Calculate the centroids, then determine the appropriate stopping criterion
depending on the number of centroids.
 Calculate the distances between the cluster centroids, then find the two closest
centroids.
 Count the number of samples, then determine the initial centroids.

9. The goal of association analysis is

 To find the most complex rules to explain associations between as many items as
possible in the data.
 To find the number of outliers in the data
 To find rules to capture associations between items or events
 To find the number of clusters for cluster analysis

10. In association analysis, an item set is

 A transaction or set of items that occur together


 A set of transactions that occur a certain number of times in the data
 A set of items that two rules have in common
 A set of items that infrequently occur together

11. The support of an item set

 Captures the frequency of that item set


 Captures how many times that item set is used in a rule
 Captures the number of items in that item set
 Captures the correlation between the items in that item set

12. Rule confidence is used to

 Identify frequent item sets


 Determine the rule with the most items
 Measure the intuitiveness of a rule
 Prune rules by eliminating rules with low confidence

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