Suppose that we are interested in the factors that influence whether a political candidate wins an election. The outcome (response) variable is binary (0/1); win or lose. The predictor variables of interest are the amount of money spent on the campaign, the amount of time spent campaigning negatively and whether or not the candidate is an incumbent.
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Suppose a man told you he had a nice conversation with someone on the train. Not knowing anything about this conversation, the probability that he was speaking to a woman is 50% (assuming the train had an equal number of men and women and the speaker was as likely to strike up a conversation with a man as with a woman). Now suppose he also told you that his conversational partner had long hair. It is now more
likely he was speaking to a woman, since women are more likely to have long hair than men.____________
can be used to calculate the probability that the person was a woman.
You are designing a recommendation engine for a website where the ability to generate more personalized recommendations by analyzing information from the past activity of a specific user, or the history of other users deemed to be of similar taste to a given user. These resources are used as user profiling and helps the site recommend content on a user-by-user basis. The more a given user makes use of the system, the better the recommendations become, as the system gains data to improve its model of that user. What kind of this recommendation engine is ?
In statistics, maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE) is a method of estimating the parameters of a statistical model. When applied to a data set and given a statistical model, maximum-likelihood estimation provides estimates for the model's parameters and the normalizing constant usually ignored in MLEs because
You are working on a Data Science project and during the project you have been gibe a responsibility to interview all the stakeholders in the project. In which phase of the project you are?
Which of the following metrics are useful in measuring the accuracy and quality of a recommender system?
What is the probability that the total of two dice will be greater than 8, given that the first die is a 6?
Under which circumstance do you need to implement N-fold cross-validation after creating a regression model?
Assume some output variable "y" is a linear combination of some independent input variables "A" plus some independent noise "e". The way the independent variables are combined is defined by a parameter vector B y=AB+e where X is an m x n matrix. B is a vector of n unknowns, and b is a vector of m values. Assuming that m is not equal to n and the columns of X are linearly independent, which expression correctly solves for B?
You are working as a data science consultant for a gaming company. You have three member team and all other stake holders are from the company itself like project managers and project sponsored, data team etc. During the discussion project managed asked you that when can you tell me that the model you are using is robust enough, after which step you can consider answer for this question?
Question-3: In machine learning, feature hashing, also known as the hashing trick (by analogy to the kernel trick), is a fast and space-efficient way of vectorizing features (such as the words in a language), i.e., turning arbitrary features into indices in a vector or matrix. It works by applying a hash function to the features and using their hash values modulo the number of features as indices directly, rather than looking the indices up in an associative array. So what is the primary reason of the hashing trick for building classifiers?