Questions Bank Faml
Questions Bank Faml
2. What is regression? Give example of some practical problems solved using regression.
3. Write short notes on any two of the following: 1. Application of machine learning algorithms 2.
Supervised learning 3. Unsupervised learning 4. Reinforcement learning
4. Compare the different types of machine learning.
5. What are different tools and technologies available for solving problems in machine learning?
Give details about any two of them.
6. What are the different types of supervised learning? Explain them with a sample application in
each area.
7. What are the different types of unsupervised learning? Explain them difference with a sample
application in each area
8. Write the difference between (any two):
9. 1. Abstraction and generalization
10. 2. Supervised and unsupervised learning
11. 3. Classification and regression
12. Write short notes on any two: 1. Histogram 2. Scatter plot 3. PCA
13. 1. What is IQR? How is it measured? 2. Explain, in details, the different components of a box
plot?
14. When will the lower whisker be longer than the upper whisker? How can outliers be detected
using box plot?
15. 1. Write short notes on any two:
16. 1. Interval data
17. 2. Inter-quartile range
18. 3. Cross-tab
19. 2. Write the difference between (any two): 1. Nominal and ordinal data 2. Box plot and
histogram 3. Mean and median
20. Explain, in details, the process of K-fold cross-validation
21. Explain the bootstrap sampling. Why is it needed?
22. . What is the main purpose of a descriptive model? State some real-world problems solved using
descriptive models
23. . Differentiate (any two):
24. 1. Predictive vs. descriptive models 2. Model underfitting vs. overfitting 3. Cross-validation vs.
bootstrapping 10.
25. Write short notes on any two: 1. LOOCV 2. F-measure 3. Silhouette width 4. ROC curve
26. 1. What is underfitting in context of machine learning models? What is the major cause of
underfitting?
27. 2. What is overfitting? When does it happen? 3. Explain bias-variance trade-off in context of
model fitting
28. . While predicting malignancy of tumour of a set of patients using a classification model,
following are the data recorded: 1. Correct predictions – 15 malignant, 75 benign 2. Incorrect
predictions – 3 malignant, 7 benign Calculate the error rate, Kappa value, sensitivity, precision,
and F-measure of the model.
29. . Write short notes on any two: 1. Holdout method 2. 10-fold cross-validation 3. Parameter
tuning 2. Write the difference between (any two): 1. Purity vs. Silhouette width 2. Bagging vs.
Boosting 3. Lazy vs. Eager learner
30. . SVM is an example of? 1. Linear Classifier and Maximum Margin Classifier 2. Non-linear
Classifier and Maximum Margin Classifier 3. Linear Classifier and Minimum Margin Classifier 4.
Non-linear Classifier and Minimum Margin Classifier
31. Write notes on 1. validation error in the kNN algorithm 2. choosing k value in the kNN algorithm
3. inductive bias in a decision tree
32.