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1) Which of the following is usually the last step in the data mining process? 1 point
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a. Visualization
Lecture 1 : Introduction,
b. Preprocessing
Knowledge Discovery
Process (unit?
c. Modelling
unit=17&lesson=18) d. Deployment

Lecture 2 : Data Yes, the answer is correct.

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d. Deployment
Lecture 3 : Data
Preprocessing - II (unit?
2) Sales database of items in a supermarket can be considered as an example of: 1 point
unit=17&lesson=20)

Lecture 4: Association a) Record data

Rules (unit? b) Ordered data
unit=17&lesson=21)
c) Graph data
Lecture 5 : Apriori d) None of the above
algorithm (unit?
unit=17&lesson=22)
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Lecture Material (unit? Accepted Answers:
unit=17&lesson=23) a) Record data

Quiz: Week 1 :
3) HTML links are an example of: 1 point
Assignment 1
(assessment?name=99)
a) Record data
Week 01: Feedback Form b) Ordered data
(unit?unit=17&lesson=24)
c) Graph data
Week 01: Assignment d) None of the above
Solution (unit?
unit=17&lesson=104) Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
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c) Graph data
Week 3 ()
4) Name of a place, can be considered an attribute of type? 1 point
Week 4 ()
a) Nominal
b) Ordinal
Week 5 ()
c) Interval
Week 6 () d) Ratio

Yes, the answer is correct.

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a) 120

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Problem Solving b) 6
Session () c) 15
d) 56

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
a) 120

6) If a record data matrix has reduced number of columns after a transformation, the transformation has performed: 1 point

a) Data Sampling
b) Dimensionality Reduction
c) Noise Cleaning
d) Discretization

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
b) Dimensionality Reduction

Answer Q7-Q10 based on the following table:

7) Support of rule {4,5} ‐> {1} 1 point

a) 1
b) 0.5
c) 0.25
d) 0

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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b) 0.5

8) Confidence of rule {4,5} -> {1} is: 1 point

a) 1
b) 0.5
c) 0.25
d) 0.75

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a) 1

9) Support of {1} -> {2,5} is: 1 point

a) 2/3
b) 2/2
c) 1/4
d) 3/4

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a) 2/3

10) Confidence of {1} -> {2,5} 1 point

a) 2/3
b) 1
c) 0
d) 0.5

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
b) 1

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1) If a store has N items, the number of possible itemsets is 1 point

Week 0 ()

a. 2N-1
Week 1 ()
b. 2N-1

Week 2 () c. N/2
d. N-1
Lecture 6: Rule
generation (unit? No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
unit=26&lesson=27)
Accepted Answers:
Lecture 7: Classification b. 2N-1
(unit?unit=26&lesson=28)
2) An association rule is valid if it satisfies: 1 point
Lecture 8: Decision Tree -
I (unit?
a. Support criteria
unit=26&lesson=29)
b. Confidence criteria
Lecture 9: Decision Tree -
c. Both support and confidence criteria
II (unit?
unit=26&lesson=30) d. None of these

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Score: 0
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c. Both support and confidence criteria
Lecture 11: Decision Tree
IV (unit?
3) An itemset is frequent if it satisfies the: 1 point
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Lecture Material (unit?

a. Support criteria
unit=26&lesson=33) b. Confidence criteria

Quiz: Week 2 : c. Both support and confidence criteria

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(assessment?
No, the answer is incorrect.
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(unit?unit=26&lesson=34) a. Support criteria

Week 02: Assignment

4) Which of the following property is used by the apriori algorithm: 1 point
Solution (unit?
unit=26&lesson=105)
a. Positive definiteness property of support

Week 3 () b. Positive semidefiniteness property of support

c. Monotone property of support
Week 4 () d. Antimonotone property of support

No, the answer is incorrect.

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Week 6 () d. Antimonotone property of support

Week 7 () 5) Consider three itemsets I1={bat, ball, wicket}, I2={bat, ball}, I3={bat}. Which of the following statements are correct? 1 point

Week 8 () a. support(I1) > support(I2)

b. support(I2) > support(I3)

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d. none of the statements A and B
Problem Solving No, the answer is incorrect.
Session () Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
d. none of the statements A and B

For questions 6-10, consider the following small database of four transactions. The minimum support is 60% and the minimum
confidence is 80%.
Trans_id Itemlist
T1 {F, A, D, B}
T2 {D, A, C, E, B}
T3 {C, A, B, E}
T4 {B, A, D}
6) The 1-itemsets that satisfy the support criteria are: 1 point

a. {A}, {B}, {C}, {D}

b. {A}. {B}, {C}
c. {A}, {B}
d. None of these
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
c. {A}, {B}

7) The 2-itemsets that satisfy the support criteria are: 1 point

a. {BC}, {BE}, {CE}, {AE}

b. {AB}. {BD}, {AD}
c. {AE}, {BC}
d. {BC}

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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b. {AB}. {BD}, {AD}

8) The 3-itemsets that satisfy the support criteria are: 1 point

a. {ABC}, {ABE}, {BCD}, {ACD}

b. {ABE}. {BCD}, {ACD}
c. {ABE}, {BCD}
d. {ABD}

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
d. {ABD}

9) Which of the following is NOT a valid association rule? 1 point

a. A -> B
b. B -> A
c. A -> D
d. D -> A

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
c. A -> D

10) Which of the following is NOT a valid association rule? 1 point

a. A -> DB
b. D -> AB
c. AD -> B
d. DB -> A

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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a. A -> DB

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Week 2 ()

Week 3 ()

Lecture 12: Bayes

Classifier I (unit?
unit=36&lesson=37)
A.
Lecture 13: Bayes
Classifier II (unit? B.
unit=36&lesson=38) C.
Lecture 14: Bayes D.
Classifier III (unit?
Yes, the answer is correct.
unit=36&lesson=39) Score: 1
Lecture 15: Bayes
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Classifier IV (unit?
A.
unit=36&lesson=40)
2) 1 point
Lecture 16: Bayes
Classifier V (unit?
unit=36&lesson=41)

Week 3 Lecture Material

(unit?unit=36&lesson=42)

Quiz: Week 3 :
Assignment 3
(assessment?
name=102)

Feedback Form (unit?

unit=36&lesson=43) A.
B.
Assignment 3 Solution
(unit? C.
unit=36&lesson=109) D.

Week 4 () Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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Week 5 () A.

Week 6 ()

Week 7 ()

Week 8 ()

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3) 2 points
Problem Solving
Session ()

A.
B.
C.
D.

No, the answer is incorrect.

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C.

4) 1 point

A.
B.
C.
D.

Yes, the answer is correct.

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B.

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5) 1 point

A.
B.
C.
D.

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
A.

6) 1 point

A.
B.
C.
D.

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
A.

7) 1 point

A.
B.
C.
D.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
B.

8) 1 point

A.
B.
C.
D.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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9) 1 point

A.
B.
C.
D.

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1) Which of the following statement is true about Bayes classifier? 1 point

(a) It always provides zero error when class distributions are known
(b)It always provides the lowest possible error when class distributions are known
(c) It may not always provide the lowest possible error when class distributions are known
(d) It always provides the lowest possible error when class distributions are estimated

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(b)It always provides the lowest possible error when class distributions are known

2) Let A be an example, and C be a class. The probability P(C|A) is known as: 1 point

(a) Apriori probability

(b) Aposteriori probability
(c) Class conditional probability
(d) None of the above

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
(b) Aposteriori probability

3) Let A be an example, and C be a class. The probability P(C) is known as: 1 point

(a) Apriori probability

(b) Aposteriori probability
(c) Class conditional probability
(d) None of the above

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
(a) Apriori probability

4) Consider a binary classification problem with two classes C1 and C2. Class labels of ten other training set instances sorted in 1 point
increasing order of their distance to an instance x are as follows: {C1, C2, C1, C2, C2, C2, C1, C2, C1, C2}. How will a K=3 nearest neighbor
classifier classify x?

(a) There will be a tie

(b) C1
(c) C2
(d) Not enough information to classify

Yes, the answer is correct.

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5) According to the following graph, what should be the appropriate value of K if KNN algorithm is used? 1 point

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Lecture 17 : K Nearest
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Lecture 18 : K Nearest
Neighbor II (unit? (a) 5
unit=45&lesson=47)
(b) 10
Lecture 19: K Nearest
(c) 15
Neighbor III (unit?
unit=45&lesson=48)
(d) 20

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Score: 1
Neighbor IV (unit?
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Lecture 21: K Nearest
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unit=45&lesson=50)
(a) 1
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Assignment 04 (d) 8
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Feedback Form (unit?
(a) 1
unit=45&lesson=52)

Week 5 () 7) Which of the following will be Manhattan Distance between the two data point A(1,3) and B(2,3)? 1 point

Week 6 () (a) 1
(b) 2
Week 7 () (c) 4
(d) 8
Week 8 ()
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
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Problem Solving
Session ()
8) You are given the following set of training examples where x and y are the two inputs and Class is the target. What would be the 1 point
target class of a data point x=1, y=1 using Euclidean distance in 3-NN?

Y Class
X
-1 1 -
0 1 +
0 2 -
1 -1 -
1 0 +
1 2 +
2 2 -
2 3 +

(a) Class +
(b) Class –
(c) None of the above
(d) Can’t be determined

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Score: 0
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(a) Class +

9) What would be the class if 7-NN is used? 1 point

(a) Class +
(b) Class –
(c) None of the above
(d) Can’t be determined.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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(b) Class –

10) In the following figure you are given the distances between the two points A(x1,y1) and B(x2,y2). 1 point

Which of the statement is true?

(a) Left: Manhattan distance and Right: Euclidean Distance

(b) Left: Euclidean distance and Right: Manhattan distance
(c) Both are Euclidean distance
(d) None of the above

Yes, the answer is correct.

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Week 2 ()

Week 3 ()

Week 4 ()

Week 5 ()
A.
Lecture 22: Support B.
Vector Machine I (unit? C.
unit=54&lesson=55)
D.
Lecture 23: Support
Yes, the answer is correct.
Vector Machine II (unit? Score: 1
unit=54&lesson=56)
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Vector Machine III (unit?
unit=54&lesson=57) 2) 1 point

Lecture 25: Support

Vector Machine IV (unit?
unit=54&lesson=58)

Lecture 26: Support

Vector Machine V (unit?
unit=54&lesson=59)

Week 5 Lecture Material

(unit?unit=54&lesson=60)
A.
Quiz: Week 5 :
Assignment 5 B.
(assessment? C.
name=108)
D.
Feedback Form (unit?
Yes, the answer is correct.
unit=54&lesson=61) Score: 1
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C.
unit=54&lesson=113)
3) 1 point
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Week 7 ()

Week 8 ()

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Problem Solving B.
Session () C.
D.

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
A.

4) 1 point

A.
B.
C.
D.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
C.

5) 1 point

A.
B.
C.
D.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
A.

6) 1 point

A.
B.
C.
D.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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7) 1 point

A.
B.
C.
D.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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D.

8) 1 point

A.
B.
C.
D.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
D.

9) 1 point

A.
B.
C.
D.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
D.

10) 1 point

A.
B.
C.
D.

Yes, the answer is correct.

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d. 2

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2) How are the weights and biases initialized in an ANN in general? 1 point
Lecture 27: Kernel
a. Can be initialized randomly
Machines (unit?
unit=63&lesson=64) b. Always initialized to zero
c. Always initialized to infinity
Lecture 28: Artificial
Neural Networks I (unit? d. Always initialized as 1
unit=63&lesson=65)
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Neural Networks II (unit? Accepted Answers:
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Lecture 30: Artificial

3) In which of the below neural network, the links may connect nodes within the same layer or nodes from one layer to the previous 1 point
Neural Networks III (unit?
layers?
unit=63&lesson=67)

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Neural Networks IV (unit? b. Feed-forward neural network
unit=63&lesson=68)
c. Recurrent neural network
Week 6 Lecture Material d. Both B, C
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name=111)
4) Neural Networks are complex ______________ with many parameters. 1 point
Feedback Form (unit?
unit=63&lesson=70)
a. Linear Functions
Week 06: Assignment b. Nonlinear Functions
Solution (unit?
c. Discrete Functions
unit=63&lesson=116)
d. Exponential Functions
Week 7 ()
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
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Problem Solving a. Pattern Recognition

Session () b. Classification
c. Clustering
d. All of the above

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d. All of the above

6) A neuron with 3 inputs has the weight vector [0.2 -0.1 0.1]^T and a bias θ = 0. If the input vector is X = [0.2 0.4 0.2]^T then the 1 point
total input to the neuron is:

a. 0.2
b. 0.02
c. 0.4
d. 0.10

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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b. 0.02

7) A neural Network given below takes two binary inputs X1, X2 ϵ {0,1} and the activation function for each neuron is the binary 1 point
threshold function (g(a)= 1 if a >0; 0 otherwise). Which of the following logical functions does it compute?

a. AND
b. NAND
c. XOR
d. NOR

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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d. NOR

8) The neural network given bellow takes two binary valued inputs x1, x2 ϵ {0,1}, the activation function for each neuron is the binary 1 point
threshold function (g(a)= 1 if a >0; 0 otherwise). Which of the following logical functions does it compute?

a. AND
b. NAND
c. XOR
d. OR

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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b. NAND

9) The neural network given bellow takes two binary valued inputs x1, x2 ϵ {0,1} and the activation function is the binary threshold 1 point
function (h(z)=1 if z>0;0 otherwise). Which of the following logical functions does it compute?

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a. OR
b. AND
c. NAND
d. NOR

No, the answer is incorrect.

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b. AND

10) Under which of the following situation would you expect overfitting to happen? 1 point

a. With training iterations error on training set as well as test set decreases
b. With training iterations error on training set decreases but test set increases
c. With training iterations error on training set as well as test set increases
d. With training iterations training set as well as test set error remains constant
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
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b. With training iterations error on training set decreases but test set increases

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1) Which of the following statement is NOT true about clustering? 1 point
Week 1 ()
a. It is a supervised learning technique
Week 2 () b. It is an unsupervised learning technique
c. It is also known as exploratory data analysis
Week 3 ()
d. It groups data into homogeneous groups

Week 4 () Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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a. It is a supervised learning technique

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2) Which of the following clustering technique start with the points as individual clusters and, at each step, merge the closest pair of 1 point
clusters
Week 7 ()
a. K-Means clustering
Lecture 32: Clustering I
(unit?unit=72&lesson=73) b. DBSCAN
c. Divisive clustering
Lecture 33: Clustering II
(unit?unit=72&lesson=74) d. Agglomerative clustering

Lecture 34: Clustering III

No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
(unit?unit=72&lesson=75)
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Lecture 35: Clustering IV d. Agglomerative clustering
(unit?unit=72&lesson=76)
3) DBSCAN is a___________ algorithm 1 point
Lecture 36: Clustering V
(unit?unit=72&lesson=77)
a. Partitional clustering
Week 7 : Lecture Material b. Hierarchical clustering
(unit?unit=72&lesson=78)
c. Fuzzy clustering
Quiz: Week 7 : d. Complete clustering
Assignment 7
(assessment? Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
name=112)
Accepted Answers:
Feedback Form (unit? a. Partitional clustering
unit=72&lesson=79)

Week 7 : Assignment
4) The Euclidean distance matrix between four 2-dimensional points, p1, p2, p3, and p4, is shown below. A possible set of co- 1 point
Solution (unit? ordinate values of these points are:
unit=72&lesson=118)

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a. p1=(0, 0), p2=(0, 1), p3=(1, 0), p4=(1, 1)

b. p1=(0, 0), p2=(1, 0), p3=(1, 1), p4=(0, 1)
c. p1=(1, 0), p2=(0, 0), p3=(1, 1), p4=(0, 1)
d. p1=(0, 0), p2=(1, 1), p3=(1, 0), p4=(0, 1)

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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b. p1=(0, 0), p2=(1, 0), p3=(1, 1), p4=(0, 1)

5) The leaves of a dendogram in hierarchical clustering represent? 1 point

a. Individual data points

b. Clusters of multiple data points
c. Distances between data points
d. Cluster membership of the data points
Yes, the answer is correct.
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a. Individual data points

6) Distance between two clusters in complete linkage clustering is defined as: 1 point

a. Distance between the closest pair of points between the clusters

b. Distance between the furthest pair of points between the clusters
c. Distance between the most centrally located pair of points in the clusters
d. None of the above

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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b. Distance between the furthest pair of points between the clusters

7) Consider a set of five 2-dimensional points p1=(0, 0), p2=(5, 0), p3=(5, 1), p4=(0, 1), and p5=(0, 0.5). Euclide-an distance is the 1 point
distance function. Single linkage clustering is used to cluster the points into two clusters. The clusters are:

a. {p1, p2, p3} {p4, p5}

b. {p1, p4, p5} {p2, p3}
c. {p1, p2, p5} {p3, p4}
d. {p1, p2, p4} {p3, p5}

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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b. {p1, p4, p5} {p2, p3}

8) Consider a set of five 2-dimensional points p1=(0, 0), p2=(5, 0), p3=(5, 1), p4=(0, 1), and p5=(0, 0.5). Euclide-an distance is the 1 point
distance function. Complete linkage clustering is used to cluster the points into two clus-ters. The clusters are:

a. {p1, p4, p5} {p2, p3}

b. {p1, p2, p3} {p4, p5}
c. {p1, p2, p5} {p3, p4}
d. {p1, p2, p4} {p3, p5}

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a. {p1, p4, p5} {p2, p3}

9) Consider a set of five 2-dimensional points p1=(0, 0), p2=(5, 0), p3=(5, 1), p4=(0, 1), and p5=(0, 0.5). Euclidean distance is the 1 point
distance function. The k-means algorithm is used to cluster the points into two clusters. The initial cluster centers are p1 and p5. The clusters
after two iterations of k-means are:

a. {p1, p4, p5} {p2, p3}

b. {p1, p2, p3} {p4, p5}
c. {p3, p4, p5} {p1, p2}
d. {p1, p2, p4} {p3, p5}

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a. {p1, p4, p5} {p2, p3}

10) Given a set of seven 2-dimensional points p1=(0, 0), p2=(5, 0), p3=(5, 1), p4=(0, 1), p5=(0, 0.5), p6=(0, 9), and p7=(5.5, 1). 1 point
Euclidean distance is the distance function. The DBSCAN algorithm is used to cluster the points. Epsilon = 1, and MinPts = 2 is used for
DBSCAN. The clusters and outliers obtained are:

a. Clusters: {p1, p3, p4, p5} {p2, p7}; Outlier: p6

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b. Clusters: {p1, p2, p3} {p4, p5, p6}; Outlier: p7

c. Clusters: {p1, p4, p5} {p2, p3, p7}; Outlier: p6
d. Clusters: {p1, p4, p5} {p2, p3, p6}; Outlier: p7

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c. Clusters: {p1, p4, p5} {p2, p3, p7}; Outlier: p6

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Assignment submitted on 2023-03-22, 22:07 IST
1) Target variable in Regression is _________ 1 point
Week 1 ()
a. Continuous variable
Week 2 () b. Discrete variable
c. Character variable
Week 3 ()
d. All of the above

Week 4 () Yes, the answer is correct.

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Week 5 ()
a. Continuous variable

Week 6 ()
2) Regression is used in: 1 point

Week 7 () a. predictive data mining

b. exploratory data mining
Week 8 ()
c. descriptive data mining
Lecture 37 : Regression I d. explanative data mining
(unit?unit=81&lesson=82)
Yes, the answer is correct.
Lecture 38 : Regression II Score: 1
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a. predictive data mining
Lecture 39 : Regression
III (unit?
3) Regression finds out the model parameters which produces the least square error between - 1 point
unit=81&lesson=84)

Lecture 40 : Regression a. input value and output value

IV (unit? b. input value and target value
unit=81&lesson=85)
c. output value and target value
Lecture 41 : d. model parameters and output value
Dimensionality Reduction
- I (unit? Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
unit=81&lesson=86)
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Lecture 42 : c. output value and target value
Dimensionality Reduction
- II (unit? 4) Consider x1, x2 to be the independent variables and y to be the dependent variable, which of the following represents a linear 1 point
unit=81&lesson=87)
regression model?
Lecture 43 : Tutorial (unit?
unit=81&lesson=88)
a. y = a0 + a1/x1 + a2/x2
b. y = a0 + a1x1 + a2x2
Week 8 Lecture Material
(unit?unit=81&lesson=89) c. y = a0 + a1x1 + a2x22
d. y = a0 + a1x12 + a2x2
Quiz: Week 8 :
Assignment 8 Yes, the answer is correct.
(assessment? Score: 1
name=114) Accepted Answers:
b. y = a0 + a1x1 + a2x2
Feedback Form (unit?
unit=81&lesson=90)
5) The linear regression model y = a0 + a1x is applied to the data in the table shown below. What is the value of the sum squared 1 point
error function S(a0, a1), when a0 = 1, a1=2 ?

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Week 08 Assignment
Solution (unit? x y
unit=81&lesson=119) 0 1
0.5 1.9
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1 2.5
1.25 3
Problem Solving
Session () a. 0.00
b. 0.25
c. 0.50
d. 0.51
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
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d. 0.51

6) The linear regression model y = a0 + a1x is to be fitted to the data in the table shown below. What is the optimal regression model 1 point
obtained by minimizing sum squared error?

x y
0 1
1 1.9
2 3.2
2.5 3.4

a. y = 1.01 –2.10x
b. y = 1.01 +2.10x
c. y = 1.01 – 0.98x
d. y = 1.01 + 0.98x

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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d. y = 1.01 + 0.98x

7) In the figures below the training instances are described by dots. The blue dotted lines indicate the actual functions and the red 1 point
lines indicate the regression model. Which of the following statement is correct?

a. Figure 1 represents overfitting and Figure 2 represents underfitting

b. Figure 1 represents underrfitting and Figure 2 represents overfitting
c. Both Figure 1 and Figure 2 represents underfitting
d. Both Figure 1 and Figure 2 represents overfitting

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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b. Figure 1 represents underrfitting and Figure 2 represents overfitting

8) Find the eigenvalues of the following matrix 1 point

a. 1,3
b. 2,3
c. 1,2,3
d. Eigenvalues cannot be found.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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c. 1,2,3

9) A time series prediction problem is often solved using? 1 point

a. Multivariate regression
b. Autoregression
c. Logistic regression

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d. Sinusoidal regression

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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b. Autoregression

10) In principal component analysis, the projected lower dimensional space corresponds to – 1 point

a. subset of the original co-ordinate axis

b. eigenvectors of the data covariance matrix
c. eigenvectors of the data distance matrix
d. orthogonal vectors to the original co-ordinate axis

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
b. eigenvectors of the data covariance matrix

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