8/15/2019 Quiz: Weekly Quiz 2

Weekly Quiz 2
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Question 1 2 pts

Which of the following is / are true about weak learners used in ensemble model?

1. They have low variance and they don’t usually over-fit

2. They have high bias, so they cannot solve hard learning problems
3. They have high variance and they don’t usually over-fit

1 and 2

1 and 3

2 and 3

None of these

Question 2 2 pts

In an election, N candidates are competing against each other and people are voting for either of the candidates. Voters
don’t communicate with each other while casting their votes.

Which of the following ensemble method works similar to above-discussed election procedure?

Hint: Persons are like base models of ensemble method

Bagging

Boosting

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A Or B

None of these

Question 3 1 pts

Models with High Bias and Low Variance are inconsistent but accurate on average

TRUE

FALSE

No answer text provided.

No answer text provided.

Question 4 1 pts

If the model has a very high bias the model is more likely to

Underfit

Overfit

No answer text provided.

No answer text provided.

Question 5 2 pts

What type of boosting involves the following three elements?

1. A loss function to be optimized.

2. A weak learner to make predictions.
3. An additive model to add weak learners to minimize the loss function.

Adaptive Boosting

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Gradient Boosting

Extreme Gradient Boosting

No answer text provided.

Question 6 2 pts

Let us look at the following case and answer the following question

Consider a data set with 100,000 observations. This data set consist of candidates who applied for Internship in Harvard.
Apparently, Harvard is well-known for its extremely low acceptance rate. The dependent variable represents if a candidate
has been shortlisted (1) or not shortlisted (0). After analysing the data, it was found ~ 98% did not get shortlisted and only
~ 2% got shortlisted.

Which of the following methods can be used before starting to work on the data given in the above case?

Under Sampling

Over Sampling

SMOTE

All of these

Question 7 1 pts

In terms of the bias-variance trade-off, which of the following is/are substantially more harmful to the test error than the
training error?

Bias

Variance

Loss

Risk

Question 8 2 pts

What is the explanation of the mentioned code snippet?

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“balanced.gd <- SMOTE(Class ~., smote.train, perc.over = 4800, k = 5, perc.under = 1000)”

We are adding 48 for every 100 of the minority class sample

We are subtracting 48 for every 100 of the minority class sample

We are adding 10 for every 100 of the minority class sample.

We are subtracting 10 for every 100 of the minority class sample.

Question 9 2 pts

What kind of Boosting is the following?

Adaptive Boosting

Extreme Gradient Boosting

Gradient Boosting

No answer text provided.

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