Fitting Models to Data
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Which chapter of the book discusses fitting a model to data?

  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 4 (correct)
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 1

    • What is the goal of data mining?

  • Specifying the structure of the model
  • Finding a model of the target variable
  • Finding informative attributes
  • Calculating the best parameter values (correct)

    • How did we construct a supervised segmentation model in Chapter 3?

  • By calculating the best parameter values
  • By recursively finding informative attributes on subsets of instances (correct)
  • By specifying the structure of the model
  • By finding informative attributes

    • What does the structure of a model refer to?

    <p>The particular tree model</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the numeric parameters of a model?

    <p>The probability estimates at the leaf nodes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the alternative method for learning a predictive model from a dataset?

    <p>Specifying the structure of the model</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the term 'parameters' refer to in the context of fitting a model to data?

    <p>The probability estimates at the leaf nodes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the goal of data mining?

    <p>Learning a predictive model from a dataset</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does data mining calculate the best parameter values?

    <p>By specifying the structure of the model</p> Signup and view all the answers

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