NPTEL Data Mining Assignment Answers 2023 -Week 8

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NPTEL DATA MINING ASSIGNMENT ANSWERS 2023 -WEEK 8

Q1.Target variable in Regression is _________

Answer:  (a.) Continuous variable

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Q2. Regression is used in:

Answer:  (a.) predictive data mining

Q3. Regression finds out the model parameters which produces the least square error between –

Answer: (b.) input value and target value

Q4. Consider x₁, x₂ to be the independent variables and y to be the dependent variable, which of the following represents a linear regression model?

Answer: (b.) y = a₀ + a₁x₁ + a₂x₂

Q5. 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 error function S(a₀, a₁), when a₀ = 1, a₁=2 ?

Answer: (d.) 0.51

Q6. 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 obtained by minimizing sum squared error?

Answer: (d.) y = 1.01 + 0.98x

Q7. In the figures below the training instances are described by dots. The blue dotted lines indicate the actual functions and the red lines indicate the regression model. Which of the following statement is correct?

Answer: (b.) Figure 1 represents underrfitting and Figure 2 represents overfitting

Q8. Find the eigenvalues of the following matrix

Answer:  (c.) 1,2,3

Q9. A time series prediction problem is often solved using?

Answer: (b.) Autoregression

Q10. In principal component analysis, the projected lower dimensional space corresponds to –

Answer: (b) eigenvectors of the data covariance matrix

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