1 What will be output of tt <- sort(table(c("a", "b", "a", "a", "b", "c", "a1", "a1", "a1")), dec=T) SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER Top of Form a a1 b c 3 3 2 1 3 3 2 1 a a1 b c 2 1 4 1 a a1 b c 7 3 2 1 Bottom of Form   2 The frequency distribution of a categorical variable can be checked using the table function in R language

1

What will be output of tt <- sort(table(c("a", "b", "a", "a", "b", "c", "a1", "a1", "a1")), dec=T)

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a a1 b c 3 3 2 1

3 3 2 1

a a1 b c 2 1 4 1

a a1 b c 7 3 2 1

 

2

The frequency distribution of a categorical variable can be checked using the table function in R language. gender=factor(c('M','F','M','F','F','F')) What would be the reference level by default?

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M

F

Both 1 & 2 above

None of above

 

3

What will be the result of multiplying two vectors in R having different lengths? x = c(1,56,8) y = c(8,2,11,8) x*y

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[1] 8 112 88 NA

[1] 8 112 88

[1] 8

[1] 8 112 88 Warning message:

 

4

What would be output of a in loop: for (year in 1:5) { Yr=print(year) }

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[1] 1 [1] 2 [1] 3 [1] 4 [1] 5

[1] 1

[1] 5

[1] 1 [1] 5

 

5

While running syntax View(Boston) system gives error - Error in View : object 'Boston' not found. What could be possible reason for this error?

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Library caTools is not loaded

Library MASS is not loaded

R needs to be rebooted

Is there any other package required which does not exist in CRAN

 

6

While running a numeric expression x = 1/4000 the denotion given in output is scientific: [1] 1e-04. What should be appropriate syntax to visualize decimal places?

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informat(x,sci=FALSE)

format(x,sci=FALSE)

round(x)

format(x,format(.001))

 

7

To find out position or element number of maximum value in below dataframe DataFrame1=data.frame(v1 = c(2,4,12,3,6)) . What should be the appropriate code?

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which(max(DataFrame1$v1))

max.pos(DataFrame1$v1))

max(DataFrame1$v1)

which(DataFrame1$v1==max(DataFrame1$v1))

 

8

Multiple objects are created in R session for e.g EmployeeData, Sales_recs. What is the code to save these objects?

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upload(EmployeeData, Sales_recs, file="Mydata.RData")

save(EmployeeData, Sales_recs, file="Mydata.RData")

write.csv(EmployeeData, Sales_recs, "Mydatasets.csv)

print(EmployeeData, Sales_recs)

 

9

Is R a case sensitive language?

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TRUE

FALSE

 

10

A user defined function is created x=function(s) { if (s>0) { print("+ve") } else { print("-ve") } } What would be output of x(-1)?

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"-ve"

"+ve"

NaN

R will throw error

 

11

What is the usage of switch function?

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It can be used interchangeably with ifelse function

It is used to switch numeric values to any other class type

It is used to replace any character string

It is used to concatenate strings

 

12

What is the difference between transform and mutate function?

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There is no difference both of them can be used in place of each other

Both Transform and mutate functions are used to create a new variable however in transform function one can not recalculate a newly calculated variable. In mutate this can be performed.

Transform is used to convert a variable type

Mutate is used to concatenate text string

 

13

What is the statistical method used in R to predict a classification variable?

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Linear regression

Decision Tree

Logistic Regression

SVM

 

14

In a 2 tail test in normal distribution what will be CI limit range on the left and right side of bell curve considering 5% significance level?

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2.5% to 97.5%

5% to 95%

36% on left to 36% of data on right

None of above

 

15

What is significance of R-square in linear regression?

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Explains the better prediction capability

Represents accuracy of model

Represents high likely hood estimates

Ranges from scale of 0 to 1

 

16

Suppose there is a CustomerOrder table with CustomerID, OrderDate and Amount_Paid. What will be the code to remove duplicate entries across CustomerID, OrderDate?

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Sort(CustomerOrder,unique(CustomerOrder [c("CustomerID "," OrderDate ")]))

Sort(CustomerOrder,arrange(CustomerOrder,CustomerID)[1,])

Sort(CustomerOrder,arrange(CustomerOrder,CustomerID,OrderDate)[1,])

None of above

 

17

What would be class of this object. LogicalVector = c(TRUE,FALSE,0,1)

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Logical

Numeric

Character

list

 

18

Which of the following is an invalid assignment?

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M1 <-matrix(nrow=2, ncol=3)

M1 <-matrix(nrow=2, ncol=3.5)

M1 <-mat(nrow=2, ncol=3)

M1 <-mat(nrow=3, ncol=3)

 

19

What would be output for code m = matrix(1:6,nrow=2,ncol=3,byrow=TRUE)

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[,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 1 2 3 [2,] 4 5 6

[,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 1 3 5 [2,] 2 4 6

[,1] [,2] [1,] 1 4 [2,] 2 5 [3,] 3 6

[,1] [,2] [1,] 1 2 [2,] 3 4 [3,] 5 6

 

20

What would following code print rep(1:10,2)

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[1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

[1] 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 10

[1] 1 1 2 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

[1] 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 1 1

 

21

What would the following code print? x <-1:9 y <-15:17 >cbind(x, y)[1,]

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x y 1 15

x y 2 16

[1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

x y 9 17

 

22

The ____ function concatenates 2 or more character strings:

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paste()

bind()

mutate()

arrange()

 

23

Which of the following statements is true about character strings in R programming?

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Character strings are entered with either matching double (") or single (') quotes.

Character vectors may be appended into a vector by the c() function.

None of the above

Both a and b

 

24

A programmer writes code in single line as x = 1 y=2. Which of the following statements matches this statement?

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This code is correct.

It should be written as x = 1; y=2

R is a free text language and codes can be written in single line

x = 1 > y=2

 

25

What will be result of the code: list(5, "John", TRUE, 1+ 9i)

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[[1]] [1] 5 [[2]] [1] "John" [[3]] [1] TRUE [[4]] [1] 1+9i

[1] "5" "John" "TRUE" "1+9i"

[1] 5

Error: unexpected ','

 

26

Identify correct statement in R

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Matrix are 2 dimensional and can have elements of different data types

Vector are 1 dimensional and can have elements of same data types

Data frame are 2 dimensional

Lists can have elements of different data types

 

27

Which is valid syntax to convert a character vector to numeric x = c("1","5","98","23")

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as.num(x)

as.numeric(x)

as.factor(x)

as.char(x)

 

28

What would be output of below code x = list(78,"Tim",101,8i) length(x)

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10

7

4

0

 

29

What would be class of below object as.character(factor(c("No", "yes", "no", "yes", "no")))

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character

factor

numeric

list

 

30

What would be output of sum(2,8,9,NA)

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19

NA

Compilation error

None of above

 

31

What would be output of c(T,F,TRUE,1)

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[1] 1 0 1 1

[1] TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE

[1] T,F,TRUE,1

[1] TRUE,FALSE,TRUE,1

 

32

How many entries will be in this code EmpRecs = data.frame(EmpID = c(101,102,103) , Name = c("John","Theresa","Andy","Paul"))

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3

4

0

R will throw Error

 

33

How to convert a numeric vector in to factor permanently x= c(98,2,67,87)

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x = as.factor(x)

x = as.fac(x)

as.factor(x)

as.fac(x)

 

34

Which statement about R is correct?

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Character strings are imported as factors by default.

Factors are used to represent categorical data and can be unordered or ordered.

Neither a nor b is correct.

Both a and b are correct.

 

35

What would be the output of sum(2,8,9,NA,na.rm=T)?

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19

NA

None of above

 

36

Which statement is correct about loops in R?

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To exit a repeat loop is to call break.

Infinite loops should be avoided.

Neither a nor b is correct.

Both a and b are correct.

 

37

Which of the following code stops a loop after 20 iterations?

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for(i in 1:100){ if(i >20){ break } print(i) }

for(i in 1:100){ if(i >19){ break } print(i) }

for(i in 1:100){ if(i <20){ break } print(i) }

for(i in 1:100){ if(i <19){ break } print(i) }

 

38

What will be output of below code for(i in seq(from=1,to=10,by=2)) { Variable1=print(i) }

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[1] 1 [1] 3 [1] 5 [1] 7 [1] 9

[1] 1 [1] 2 [1] 3 [1] 4 [1] 5 [1] 6 [1] 7 [1] 8 [1] 9 [1] 10

[1] 1 [1] 2 [1] 3 [1] 4 [1] 5 [1] 6 [1] 7 [1] 8 [1] 9 [1] 6 [1] 7 [1] 8 [1] 9

[1] 1 [1] 4 [1] 7

 

39

What will be the output of the this code? x <-1 switch(x, 2+2, sum(1:10), max(1:10))

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55

4

10

NA

 

40

What will be output of this code x =c(51,93,8,67,22) x[x>50 & x<90]

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51 68

51 67

numeric(0)

8 22

 

41

Which function will give statistics like Min and Max values, Quartiles, Mean and Median

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Quantile

Mean

Median

Summary

 

42

What is the function of "describe.by" in this code- describe.by(iris,group=iris$Species)

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Summary statistics for each specie separately.

Overall summary statistics

Both a and b

Neither a or b

 

43

CustomerID = c(1098,1099)ProductOrdered = c('Fan','Washing Machine')What should be code to get below view:

 

 

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cbind(CustomerID,ProductOrdered)

rbind(CustomerID,ProductOrdered)

data.frame(CustomerID,ProductOrdered)

Either a or c

 

44

Can this dataframe named CustDetails be converted into matrix

 

 

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TRUE

FALSE

 

45

What will be class of variable CustomerID post conversion of CustDetails from data frame to matrix

 

 

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Numeric

Character

Integer

None of above

 

46

If we want to take mean of all variables in data frame without writing mean function for all variables separately what should be the function?

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mean

apply

ifelse

ColSums

 

47

Which statement is true about lapply function:

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lapply is a list apply which acts on a list or vector and returns a list

lapply returns a numeric vector

 

48

Which of following statement is true about sapply:

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Works for all variables in a dataframe and The output is a numeric

Works for only one variable

Is applicable to only numeric variables

None of above

 

49

What will be output of this code apply(iris[,1:4],2,mean)

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mean of all numeric columns

mean by rows for all observations

mean of selected columns i.e 1 to 4 only

mean of columns 1 to 3

 

50

What will be output of this code apply(iris[,1:4],1,mean)

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mean of all numeric columns

mean by rows for all observations for first 4 columns only

row means for all columns

None of above

 

51

Which are the measures of central tendency ?

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Mean, kurtosis and skewness

Mean, Median and Mode

Mode & Range

Standard Deviation and Range

 

52

What is the formula for standard deviation of a sample? (Please check the image and click on the correct answer)

 

 

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D

C

B

A

 

53

If a positively skewed distribution has a median as 75, which of the following statement is true?

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Mean greater than 75

Mode is less than 75

Mode is greater than 75

Both a and b

 

54

What does high standard deviation represent?

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Data is less scattered

Data is highly scattered

 

55

What would be the critical values of Z for 95% confidence interval for a two-tailed test?

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+/- 2.33

+/- 1.96

+/- 1.64

+/- 2.55

 

56

In a normal distribution, What percentage of data is between -1 to + 1 standard deviation

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68%

90%

34%

95%

 

57

Which graph has strong positive correlation? ( Please check the image and click on the correct answer)

 

 

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D

C

B

A

 

58

Overall average aptitude of Simplilearn participants is 75 out of 100 over last 2 years. If we look at a particular batch say starting in May'18 we may observe that average aptitude of this batch is 72. Knowing the population standard deviation is 5, what will be the CI range.

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65.2 to 84.8

66.8 to 83.2

63.25 to 86.75

60 to 90

 

59

Which statement is true about K fold cross validation:

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It is an extension of cross validation and Original sample data is split into k random samples of equal sizes each

Only Two datasets training and test in 70:30 ratio are divided

It is a model validation technique

It gives robust measure of equation/ model testing

 

60

What happens when we move from simple linear regression to multiple linear regression?

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The r squared will increase or remain constant

The r squared may decrease

Both r square and adjusted r square always increase

R square might increase or decrease depending on the variables significance.

 

61

Is this statement correct In a normal distribution Mean = Median = Mode

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TRUE

FALSE

 

62

Pearson correlation is used where there is linear relationship between 2 variables however spearmen correlation is used for monotonic relation. Is this correct?

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TRUE

FALSE

 

63

How are errors calculated in linear regression?

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Error = Predicted Y - Actual Y

Error = Actual Y - Predicted Y

Error = (Actual Y - Predicted Y)2

Error = ?(Actual Y - Predicted Y)2

 

64

Which equation is this? Y = B0+B1*X1+ B2*X2+ B11*X12 + B22*X22 + B12*X1*X2 +Err

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Simple linear regression

Multiple linear regression

Logarithmic regression

Polynomial regression

 

65

The independent variable X is also called:

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Predictor variable

Predicted variable

Residual

Target variable

 

66

What will be the modeling technique used to predict a categorical variable. Select all that apply

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Linear regression

ANOVA

Logistic Regression

SVM

 

67

What is the syntax for linear regression model?

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Lm

Aov

Glm

Rpart

 

68

Which statistical test/ distribution is non parametric

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Chisquare

Normal distribution

Kruskal wallis

Mann Whitney

 

69

Is this statement correct: Decision trees can be used only to predict a binary or categorical variable.

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TRUE

FALSE

 

70

What are the methods to avoid overfitting in Decision Trees?

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Pre pruning

Post pruning

Both

None

 

71

How is information gain calculated in case of continuous variable. The steps are 1. Find the middle point in first 2 numbers 2. Sort the data in increasing order Is the sequence correct?

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Yes the sequence is correct

No the sequence should be 2nd and then 1st

 

72

Support vector machine is a:

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Machine learning algorithm

Statistical Algorithm

 

73

How many nodes are there in a decision tree:

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Root node only

Root, Branch and leaf nodes

Branch and leaf nodes only

None of above

 

74

Which of the following are called disjoint clusters?

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Kmeans cluster

Hierarchical clusters

Agglomerative clusters

None of above

 

75

Is this statement correct: Clustering is a unsupervised learning algorithm.

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TRUE

FALSE

 

76

Below are the steps for Kmeans clustering. Arrange it in right order: 1. The clusters are validated with actual centroids 2. Random seeds are joined with virtual lines and perpendicular bisectors are drawn 3. Random seeds are assigned 4. Area separated by perpendicular bisector are the clusters

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3,2,4,1

1,3,4,2

1,2,3,4

4,1,2,3

 

77

Which of the following statement (s) is true about clustering?

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As we increase the number of clusters the R square increases

Clustering is unsupervised learning algorithm

Hierarchical clusters are more applicable to find out distance between different cities/ states.

Clustering is used to predict continuous variable

 

78

How will be the Euclidean distance calculated between 2 coordinates viz. (23,30) and (22,31)

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?(23-22)2 + (30-31)2

?(22-24)2 + (30-31)2

23-22 = 1

30-31 = -1

 

79

Which of the following statement is true?

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The Manhattan distance between 2 x and y coordinates will be more than euclidean distance

The euclidean distance between 2 x and y coordinates will be more than Manhattan distance

 

80

What is true about K-Means Clustering algorithm?

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K-means is sensitive to cluster center initializations

Bad initialization can lead to more number of iterations

Bad initialization can lead to less robust clusters

All of the above

 

81

Is this code correct: KmeansCluster = kmeans(Cust_Segment_Data)

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Yes

No, syntax center = 3 is missing

No, The distance measure needs to be specified as Manhattan

No, The distance measure needs to be specified as Euclidian

 

82

What is the prerequisite for hierarchical clustering?

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Calculation of Distance matrix

Standardizing the variables

Removing missing values

All of above

 

83

What are the 2 major components of dbscan clustering?

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Eps and Minpts

Eps and Distance between centroids

Minpts and Within distance measure

Eps, Minpts, Distance between Centroids, Within distance measure

 

84

Which of clustering algorithms is called bottoms up approach?

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Kmeans

Fuzzy

Hierarchical

Dbscan

 

85

A retail chain store would like to roll out offer on multiple products together based on similarity of products. What will be best approach to provide solution to this business problem.

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Clustering

Regression

Market basket Analysis

Hypothesis testing

 

86

While reading/importing a transactional data for market basket analysis what should be kept in mind

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The data has to be in transactional format and should be read with syntax read.transactions

The data should be imported with read.csv or read.xlsx

Either of above

None of above

 

87

Which algorithm is used to find out association between products that a customer can buy at a retail outlet.

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Apriori algorithm

Kmeans algorithm

Random forest algorithm

Bootstrapping

 

88

In Market basket analysis how is support statistic derived. Choose the right answer

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For a Product A support = Number of transactions in which A was present/ Total number of transactions in a retail store

For a Product A support = Number of transactions in which A was NOT present/ Total number of transactions in a retail store

1/Total number of distinct products

None of above

 

89

In Market basket analysis how is confidence statistic derived between product A and B. Choose the right answer

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Number of transactions in which A & B were bought/ Number of transactions in which A alone was bought.

Number of transactions in which A & B were bought/ Total number of transactions for all the products

Number of transactions in which A was bought/ Number of transactions in which A & B were bought

Number of transactions in which B was bought/ Number of transactions in which A & B were bought

 

90

What is significance of confidence statistic?

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Higher the confidence higher are the chances that the defined 2 or more products will be bought together

Higher the confidence lower are the chances that the defined 2 or more products will be bought together

There is inverse relation ship between confidence and likelihood of purchase of 2nd product.

91

What is the syntax used to view the number of rules derived in apriori algorithm?

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Summary

Max

Inspect

itemFr

 

92

In an apriori algorithm, what is the syntax used to view the rules with lhs and rhs ?

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Summary

Max

Inspect

itemFr

 

93

What is applicability of association rules?

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Market basket analysis

Purchase data analysis

Website traffic analysis

Predict cost of a product

 

94

What cutoffs are defined in apriori algorithm explicitly while deriving association rules?

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Support and confidence

Support and lift

Support, confidence and lift

None of above

 

95

While using a clustering algorithm how would you decide the ideal number of clusters:

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If the increase in clusters does not give a substantial increase in rsquare we should not increase the number of clusters.

We should keep on increasing number of clusters till the time we get maximum rsquare.

The rsquare is normally ideal at 5 number of clusters

 

96

What are the primary factors which influence the rsquare in clustering?

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Between distance - Distance between centroids

Within distance - Average Distance between observation in each cluster from its centroid.

Both a and c

None of above

 

97

Out of 3000 products in a retail store Product A has a support statistics of .001. What does this represent?

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Product A is not very popular and does not have lot of transactional volume

Product A is running short in supply

Product A is popular and is bought frequently

None of above

 

98

ANOVA is used in which circumstances?

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Trying to predict a categorical variable

When Independent variables are categorical and dependent variable is continuous

When both independent and dependent variables are categorical

When both independent and dependent variables are continuous

 

99

In a campaign analysis, What does probability value of .003 signify in an ANOVA test?

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Either of campaign is different from another campaign

One of campaign is better than other campaigns

Either of a or b

All the campaigns are alike and there is no statistically significant difference in campaigns.

 

100

Is this formula correct for calculating F statistic

 

 

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TRUE

FALSE

 

101

Which of the following is not correct?

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Logistic regression is used to predict binary variables

Market basket analysis is used to predict continuous variables

Decision trees and Random forest predicts classification variables

Clustering is unsupervised learning

 

102

Predicting the sales volume is what kind of statistical problem:

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Classification

Prediction

Market basket analysis

Segmentation