Quiz 10 - Regression, Cluster Analysis, &
Association Analysis
1. What is the main difference between classification and
regression?
In classification, you're predicting a number, and in regression, you're predicting
a category.
There is no difference since you're predicting a numeric value from the input
variables in both tasks.
In classification, you're predicting a category, and in regression, you're
predicting a number.
In classification, you're predicting a categorical variable, and in regression, you're
predicting a nominal variable.
2. Which of the following is NOT an example of regression?
Predicting the price of a stock
Estimating the amount of rain
Determining whether power usage will rise or fall
Predicting the demand for a product
3. In linear regression, the least squares method is used to
Determine the distance between two pairs of samples.
Determine whether the target is categorical or numerical.
Determine the regression line that best fits the samples.
Determine how to partition the data into training and test sets.
4. How does simple linear regression differ from multiple linear
regression?
In simple linear regression, the input has only categorical variables. In multiple
linear regression, the input can be a mix of categorical and numerical variables.
In simple linear regression, the input has only one variable. In multiple
linear regression, the input has more than one variables.
In simple linear regression, the input has only categorical variables. In multiple
linear regression, the input has only numerical variables.
They are the just different terms for linear regression with one input variable.
5. The goal of cluster analysis is
To segment data so that differences between samples in the same cluster are
maximized and differences between samples of different clusters are minimized.
To segment data so that all samples are evenly divided among the clusters.
To segment data so that all categorical variables are in one cluster, and all
numerical variables are in another cluster.
To segment data so that differences between samples in the same cluster
are minimized and differences between samples of different clusters are
maximized.
6. Cluster results can be used to
Determine anomalous samples
Segment the data into groups so that each group can be analyzed further
Classify new samples
Create labeled samples for a classification task
All of these choices are valid uses of the resulting clusters.
7. A cluster centroid is
The mean of all the samples in the two closest clusters.
The mean of all the samples in the cluster
The mean of all the samples in the two farthest clusters.
The mean of all the samples in all clusters
8. The main steps in the k-means clustering algorithm are
Assign each sample to the closest centroid, then calculate the new centroid.
Calculate the centroids, then determine the appropriate stopping criterion
depending on the number of centroids.
Calculate the distances between the cluster centroids, then find the two closest
centroids.
Count the number of samples, then determine the initial centroids.
9. The goal of association analysis is
To find the most complex rules to explain associations between as many items as
possible in the data.
To find the number of outliers in the data
To find rules to capture associations between items or events
To find the number of clusters for cluster analysis
10. In association analysis, an item set is
A transaction or set of items that occur together
A set of transactions that occur a certain number of times in the data
A set of items that two rules have in common
A set of items that infrequently occur together
11. The support of an item set
Captures the frequency of that item set
Captures how many times that item set is used in a rule
Captures the number of items in that item set
Captures the correlation between the items in that item set
12. Rule confidence is used to
Identify frequent item sets
Determine the rule with the most items
Measure the intuitiveness of a rule
Prune rules by eliminating rules with low confidence
