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1) Which of the following are regression problems? Assume that appropriate data is 1 point
given.
Predicting the house price.
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outline Predicting whether it will rain or not on a given day.
Predicting the maximum temperature on a given day.
About Predicting the sales of the ice-creams.
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online Predicting the maximum temperature on a given day.
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2) Which of the following are multiclass classification problems? 1 point
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Classifying emails as spam or not spam.
Week 1 () Classifying a person’s blood type as A, B, AB, or O.
Predicting the price of a second-hand car.
Week 2 ()
Classifying a movie genre into Drama, Comedy, Action, or Thriller.
Week 3 () Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
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Classifying a person’s blood type as A, B, AB, or O.
Classifying a movie genre into Drama, Comedy, Action, or Thriller.
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Introduction 3) If a linear regression model achieves zero training error, can we say that all the data 1 point
to points lie on a straight line in the feature space?
Classification
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Part I (unit?
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n=58) Read the information given below and answer the questions from 4 to 6:
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Classification
Part II (unit?
An automotive service chain is launching its new grand service station this weekend. They offer
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to service a wide variety of cars. The current capacity of the station is to check 315 cars
thoroughly per day. As an inaugural offer, they claim to freely check all cars that arrive on their
Introduction launch day, and report whether they need servicing or not! Unexpectedly, they get 450 cars. The
to Regression servicemen will not work longer than the working hours, but the data analysts have to! Can you
Case Study
save the day for the new service station? How can a data scientist save the day for them? He
(unit?
has been given a data set, ‘ServiceTrain.csv
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(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HKxUFm44VaH8_DqQLqX4VPiXZkpfNoVR/view?usp=sharing)’
that contains some attributes of the car that can be easily measured and a conclusion that if a
Case Study on service is needed or not. Now for the cars they cannot check in detail, they measure those
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attributes and store them in ‘ServiceTest.csv
Part I (unit?
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Problem Statement:
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Regression Use machine learning techniques to identify whether the cars require service or not.
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Read the given datasets ‘ServiceTrain.csv
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(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HKxUFm44VaH8_DqQLqX4VPiXZkpfNoVR/view?
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Regression (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jaWkQusFvX6ZkO8PGIyelMaZRCw3D5v3/view?
Part III (unit? usp=sharing)’ as train data and test data respectively and import all the required
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packages for analysis.
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4) Which of the following machine learning techniques would NOT be appropriate to 1 point
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solve the problem given in the problem statement?
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kNN
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Random Forest
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Logistic Regression
codes (unit?
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Yes, the answer is correct.
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(unit? Prepare the data by following the steps given below, and answer questions 5 and 6.
unit=56&lesso • Encode categorical variable, Service - Yes as 1 and No as 0 for both the train and test
n=116) datasets.
Quiz: Week 4 • Split the set of independent features and the dependent feature on both the train and test
: Assignment datasets.
4 • Set random_state for the instance of the logistic regression class as 0.
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5) After applying logistic regression, what is/are the correct observations from the 1 point
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resultant confusion matrix?
Practice:
Week 4: True Positive = 29, True Negative = 94
Practice
True Positive = 94, True Negative = 29
Assignment 4
(assessment? False Positive = 5, True Negative = 94
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Supporting Yes, the answer is correct.
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False Positive = 5, True Negative = 94
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6) The logistic regression model built between the input and output variables is 1 point
checked for its prediction accuracy of the test data. What is the accuracy range (in %) of the
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predictions made over test data?
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60 - 79
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90 - 95
30 – 59
80 – 89
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
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90 - 95
7) How are categorical variables preprocessed before model building? 1 point
Standardization
Dummy variables
Correlation
None of the above
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
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Dummy variables
8) A regression model with the function y = 80 + 4.5x was built to understand the 1 point
impact of temperature x on ice cream sales y. The temperature this month is 10 degrees more
than the previous month. What is the predicted difference in ice cream sales?
56 units
45 units
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80 units
None of the above
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9) X and Y are two variables that have a strong linear relationship. Which of the 1 point
following statements are incorrect?
There cannot be a negative relationship between the two variables.
The relationship between the two variables is purely causal.
One variable may or may not cause a change in the other variable.
The variables can be positively or negatively correlated with each other.
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
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There cannot be a negative relationship between the two variables.
The relationship between the two variables is purely causal.
The Global Happiness Index report contains the Happiness Score data with multiple
features (namely the Economy, Family, Health, and Freedom) that could affect the target
variable value.
Prepare the data by following the steps given below, and answer question 10.
• Split the set of independent features and the dependent feature on the given dataset
• Create training and testing data from the set of independent features and dependent
feature by splitting the original data in the ratio 3:1 respectively, and set the value for
random_state of the training/test split method’s instance as 1
10) A multiple linear regression model is built on the Global Happiness Index dataset 1 point
‘GHI Report.csv
(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YYJ2Y1sDWKyFJbhcTCItQpQsgxoEHPl8/view?usp=sharing)’.
What is the RMSE of the baseline model?
2.00
0.50
1.06
0.75
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
1.06
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