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1) Which of these statements is/are True about Random Forests? 1 point

The goal of random forests is to increase the correlation between the trees.

Course The goal of random forests is to decrease the correlation between the trees.
outline In Random Forests, each decision tree fits the residuals from the previous one; thus, the
correlation between the trees won’t matter.
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() 2) Consider the two statements: 1 point
Statement 1: Gradient Boosted Decision Trees can overfit easily.
Week 0 () Statement 2: It is easy to parallelize Gradient Boosted Decision Trees.
Which of these are true?
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Both the statements are True.
Week 2 () Statement 1 is true, and statement 2 is false.
Statement 1 is false, and statement 2 is true.
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Both the statements are false.

Week 4 () Yes, the answer is correct.

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Statement 1 is true, and statement 2 is false.

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3) A dataset with two classes is plotted below. 1 point

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Gradient
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Random Forests
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Naive Bayes
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Bayesian
Networks (unit?
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Multiclass
Classification
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4) Consider the below dataset: 1 point
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name=315)

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Suppose you have to classify a test example “The ball won the race to the boundary” and are asked to
Text compute P(Cricket |“The ball won the race to the boundary”), what is an issue that you will face if you
Transcripts () are using Naive Bayes Classifier, and how will you work around it? Assume you are using word
frequencies to estimate all the probabilities.
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Videos () There won’t be a problem, and the probability of P(Cricket |“The ball won the race to the
boundary”) will be equal to 1.
Books () Problem: A few words that appear at test time do not appear in the dataset. Solution: Smoothing.
Problem: A few words that appear at test time appear more than once in the dataset. Solution:
Problem Remove those words from the dataset.
Solving
None of these

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Session - Jan Yes, the answer is correct.

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Problem: A few words that appear at test time do not appear in the dataset. Solution: Smoothing.

5) A company hires you to look at their classification system for whether a given customer 1 point
would potentially buy their product. When you check the existing classifier on different folds of the
training set, you find that it manages a low accuracy of usually around 60%. Sometimes, it’s barely
above 50%.

With this information in mind, and without using additional classifiers, which of the following ensemble
methods would you use to increase the classification accuracy effectively?

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AdaBoost
Bagging
Stacking
Yes, the answer is correct.
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AdaBoost

6) Suppose you have a 6 class classification problem with one input variable. You decide to 1 point
use logistic regression to build a predictive model. What is the minimum number of (β 0 , β ) parameter
pairs that need to be estimated?

6
12
5
10

Yes, the answer is correct.

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5

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7) The figure below shows a Bayesian Network with 9 variables, all of which are binary. 2 points

Which of the following is/are always true for the above Bayesian Network?

P(A, B|G) = P(A|G)P(B|G)

P(A, I) = P(A)P(I)
P(B, H|E, G) = P(B|E, G)P(H|E, G)
P(C|B, F) = P(C|F)
No, the answer is incorrect.
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P(A, I) = P(A)P(I)

8) Consider the following data for 20 budget phones, 30 mid-range phones, and 20 high-end 2 points
phones:

Consider a phone with 2 SIM card slots and NFC but no 5G compatibility. Calculate the probabilities of
this phone being a budget phone, a mid-range phone, and a high-end phone using the Naive Bayes
method. The correct ordering of the phone type from the highest to the lowest probability is?

Budget, Mid-Range, High End

Budget, High End, Mid-Range
Mid-Range, High End, Budget
High End, Mid-Range, Budget

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 2
Accepted Answers:
Mid-Range, High End, Budget

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