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What is a primary technique for addressing imbalanced datasets in classification tasks?

  • Bagging
  • Feature Standardization
  • Principal Component Analysis
  • Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) (correct)
  • In what scenario is linear regression typically applied?

  • Predicting a continuous variable such as house prices (correct)
  • Clustering customers by behavior
  • Classifying emails into spam and not spam
  • Identifying outliers in categorical data
  • Which metric is best suited to measure a model's capability to correctly identify positive instances in a dataset?

  • Accuracy
  • F1 Score
  • Precision
  • Recall (correct)
  • What technique can help with the challenges of an imbalanced dataset?

    <p>Weighting classes differently</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does feature scaling affect machine learning models?

    <p>Improves training speed and model performance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following statements is true about linear regression?

    <p>It is sensitive to outliers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which metric would best evaluate a regression model focusing on extreme prediction errors?

    <p>Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What distinguishes classification from regression problems in machine learning?

    <p>Classification categorizes data, while regression predicts continuous values.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When dealing with feature scales that vary widely, which preprocessing step is essential?

    <p>Normalization or Standardization</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following accurately describes the function of a confusion matrix?

    <p>It summarizes a classification model's performance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the impact of using linear regression for a classification problem?

    <p>It may lead to predictions falling outside the expected range.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How can you differentiate between a regression task and a classification task?

    <p>Regression predicts continuous outcomes; classification predicts categorical outcomes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which model is least likely to overfit when faced with complex data with many features?

    <p>Random Forest Regressor</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the outcome of applying feature selection methods to a dataset?

    <p>Improves model interpretability and performance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What problem might arise if features in a dataset are left unscaled?

    <p>Features with larger ranges might dominate</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is not a characteristic of binary classification?

    <p>Predicts continuous numerical values</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary challenge when evaluating a model trained on an imbalanced dataset?

    <p>Misleading accuracy metrics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following statements accurately describes the application of linear regression?

    <p>It predicts continuous outcomes, such as house prices.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When tasked with improving model performance on minority classes in an imbalanced dataset, which method is NOT effective?

    <p>Increasing the representation of the majority class</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which metric should be prioritized when evaluating a model for a disease diagnosis task with an imbalanced dataset?

    <p>F1 Score</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following approaches is most effective when dealing with a dataset that has nonlinear relationships?

    <p>Applying polynomial regression</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In the context of feature scaling, which method is most appropriate for preparing data for distance-based algorithms?

    <p>Min-Max normalization</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a significant drawback of using logistic regression for predicting disease presence?

    <p>It assumes a linear relationship between the features and the log odds of the outcome.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In a situation where a model is predicting house prices and the residual errors appear non-random, what does this typically indicate?

    <p>The model may be underfitting or the relationship is not linear</p> Signup and view all the answers

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