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This set of Machine Learning (ML) Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Machine Learning Set 13

Q1 | A feature F1 can take certain value: A, B, C, D, E, & F and represents grade of students from a college.Which of the following statement is true in following case?
  • feature f1 is an example of nominal variable.
  • feature f1 is an example of ordinal variable.
  • it doesnt belong to any of the above category.
  • both of these
Q2 | What would you do in PCA to get the same projection as SVD?
  • transform data to zero mean
  • transform data to zero median
  • not possible
  • none of these
Q3 | What is PCA, KPCA and ICA used for?
  • principal components analysis
  • kernel based principal component analysis
  • independent component analysis
  • all above
Q4 | Can a model trained for item based similarity also choose from a given set of items?
  • yes
  • no
Q5 | What are common feature selection methods in regression task?
  • correlation coefficient
  • greedy algorithms
  • all above
  • none of these
Q6 | The parameter            allows specifying the percentage of elements to put into the test/training set
  • test_size
  • training_size
  • all above
  • none of these
Q7 | In many classification problems, the target             is made up of categorical labels which cannot immediately be processed by any algorithm.
  • random_state
  • dataset
  • test_size
  • all above
Q8 |              adopts a dictionary-oriented approach, associating to each category label a progressive integer number.
  • labelencoder class
  • labelbinarizer class
  • dictvectorizer
  • featurehasher
Q9 | Which of the following metrics can be used for evaluating regression models?i) R Squaredii) Adjusted R Squarediii) F Statisticsiv) RMSE / MSE / MAE
  • a) ii and iv
  • b) i and ii
  • c) ii, iii and iv
  • d) i, ii, iii and iv
Q10 | In a simple linear regression model (One independent variable), If we change the input variable by 1 unit. How much output variable will change?
  • a) by 1
  • b) no change
  • c) by intercept
  • d) by its slope
Q11 | Function used for linear regression in R is                    
  • a) lm(formula, data)
  • b) lr(formula, data)
  • c) lrm(formula, data)
  • d) regression.linear(formula, data)
Q12 | In syntax of linear model lm(formula,data,..), data refers to             
  • a) matrix
  • b) vector
  • c) array
  • d) list
Q13 | In the mathematical Equation of Linear Regression Y?=??1 + ?2X + ?, (?1, ?2) refers to                    
  • a) (x-intercept, slope)
  • b) (slope, x-intercept)
  • c) (y-intercept, slope)
  • d) (slope, y-intercept)
Q14 | Linear Regression is a supervised machine learning algorithm.
  • a) true
  • b) false
Q15 | It is possible to design a Linear regression algorithm using a neural network?
  • a) true
  • b) false
Q16 | Which of the following is true about Residuals ?
  • a) lower is better
  • b)higher is better
  • c)a or b depend on the situation
  • d)none of these
Q17 | Overfitting is more likely when you have huge amount of data to train?
  • a) true
  • b) false
Q18 | Naive Bayes classifiers are a collection------------------of algorithms
  • classification
  • clustering
  • regression
  • all
Q19 | Naive Bayes classifiers is                             Learning
  • supervised
  • unsupervised
  • both
  • none
Q20 | Features being classified is independent of each other in Nave Bayes Classifier
  • false
  • true