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work? () 2) Suppose that we have N independent variables (X 1 , X 2 , . . . X n) and the 1 point
dependent variable is Y . Now imagine that you are applying linear regression by fitting the best
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of its variables (Say X 1 ) with Y is -0.005.
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Regressing Y on X 1 mostly does not explain away Y .
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Regressing Y on X 1 explains away Y .
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Multivariate Regressing Y on X 1 mostly does not explain away Y .
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3) Which of the following is a limitation of subset selection methods in regression? 1 point

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They cannot handle datasets with missing values.
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They are computationally expensive for large datasets.
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4) The relation between studying time (in hours) and grade on the final examination (0- 1 point
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100) in a random sample of students in the Introduction to Machine Learning Class was found to
Shrinkage be:Grade = 30.5 + 15.2 (h)
Methods (unit? How will a student’s grade be affected if she studies for four hours?
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Principal It will go down by 30.4 points.

Components It will go up by 60.8 points.
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The grade will remain unchanged.
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5) Which of the statements is/are True? 1 point
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Lasso has a closed form solution for the optimization problem, but this is not the case for
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name=177) Ridge regression does not reduce the number of variables since it never leads a
coefficient to zero but only minimizes it.
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Introduction To If there are two or more highly collinear variables, Lasso will select one of them randomly
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Hint: Find the squared error for each prediction and take the mean of that.
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Statement B: In Forward stagewise selection, the variables are added one by one to the
previously selected variables to produce the best fit till then

Both the statements are True.

Statement A is True, and Statement B is False
Statement A is False and Statement B is True
Both the statements are False.

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8) The linear regression model y = a0 + a1 x 1 + a2 x 2 +. . . +ap x p is to be fitted to 1 point

a set of N training data points having p attributes each. Let X be N × (p + 1) vectors of input
values (augmented by 1‘s), Y be N × 1 vector of target values, and θ be (p + 1) × 1 vector of
parameter values (a0 , a1 , a2 , . . . , ap ). If the sum squared error is minimized for obtaining the
optimal regression model, which of the following equation holds?

T
X X = XY

T
Xθ = X Y

T
X Xθ = Y

T T
X Xθ = X Y

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T T
X Xθ = X Y

9) Which of the following statements is true regarding Partial Least Squares (PLS) 1 point
regression?

PLS is a dimensionality reduction technique that maximizes the covariance between the
predictors and the dependent variable.

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PLS is only applicable when there is no multicollinearity among the independent

variables.
PLS can handle situations where the number of predictors is larger than the number of
observations.
PLS estimates the regression coefficients by minimizing the residual sum of squares.
PLS is based on the assumption of normally distributed residuals.
All of the above.
None of the above.

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PLS is a dimensionality reduction technique that maximizes the covariance between the
predictors and the dependent variable.

10) Which of the following statements about principal components in Principal 1 point
Component Regression (PCR) is true?

Principal components are calculated based on the correlation matrix of the original
predictors.
The first principal component explains the largest proportion of the variation in the
dependent variable.
Principal components are linear combinations of the original predictors that are
uncorrelated with each other.
PCR selects the principal components with the highest p-values for inclusion in the
regression model.
PCR always results in a lower model complexity compared to ordinary least squares
regression.

No, the answer is incorrect.

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Principal components are linear combinations of the original predictors that are uncorrelated
with each other.

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