Classification and Clustering

by HAREN SHARMA (03529802018)

Q1) Which of the following refers to the problem of finding abstracted patterns (or structures) in the unlabeled data?

A Supervised learning
B Unsupervised learning
C Hybrid learning
D Reinforcement learning

Ans B

Q2) Which one of the following refers to querying the unstructured textual data?

A Information access
B Information update
C Information retrieval
D Information manipulation

Ans C
Q3) Some telecommunication company wants to segment their customers into distinct groups in order to send appropriate
subscription offers, this is an example of

A Supervised learning
B Data extraction
C Serration
D Unsupervised learning

Ans D

Q4) Classification accuracy is

A subdivision of a set of examples into a number of classes

B. Measure of the accuracy, of the classification of a concept that is given by a certain theory
C. The task of assigning a classification to a set of examples
D. None of these

Ans B

Q5) Self-organizing maps are an example of

A Unsupervised learning
B. Supervised learning
C. Reinforcement learning
D. Missing data imputation

Ans A

Q6) In the example of predicting number of babies based on storks’ population size,number of babies is
A. outcome
B. feature
C. attribute
D. observation

Ans A

Q7) For what purpose, the analysis tools pre-compute the summaries of the huge amount of data?

A In order to maintain consistency

B For authentication
C For data access
D To obtain the queries response

Ans D

Q8) In the following given diagram, which type of clustering is used?

A Hierarchal
B Naive Bayes
C Partitional
D None of the above

Ans A

Q9) Point out the correct statement.

A The choice of an appropriate metric will influence the shape of the clusters
B Hierarchical clustering is also called HCA
C In general, the merges and splits are determined in a greedy manner
D All of the mentioned

Ans D

Q10) Which of the following is finally produced by Hierarchical Clustering?

a) final estimate of cluster centroids

b) tree showing how close things are to each other
c) assignment of each point to clusters
d) all of the mentioned

Ans B

Q11) Which of the following is required by K-means clustering?

a) defined distance metric
b) number of clusters
c) initial guess as to cluster centroids
d) all of the mentioned

Ans D
Q12) Point out the wrong statement.

a) k-means clustering is a method of vector quantization

b) k-means clustering aims to partition n observations into k clusters
c) k-nearest neighbor is same as k-means
d) none of the mentioned

Ans C

Q13) Which of the following combination is incorrect?

a) Continuous – euclidean distance

b) Continuous – correlation similarity
c) Binary – manhattan distance
d) None of the mentioned

Ans D
Q14) Hierarchical clustering should be primarily used for exploration.

a) True
b) False

Ans A

Q15) Which of the following function is used for k-means clustering?

a) k-means
b) k-mean
c) heatmap
d) none of the mentioned

Ans A

Q16) Which of the following clustering requires merging approach?

a) Partitional
b) Hierarchical
c) Naive Bayes
d) None of the mentioned

Ans C
Q17) K-means is not deterministic and it also consists of number of iterations.

a) True
b) False

Ans A

Q18) Movie Recommendation systems are an example of:

a)Classification
b)Clustering
c)Reinforcement Learning
d)Regression

Ans A and B

Q19) Can decision trees be used for performing clustering?

A. True
B. False

Ans B
Q20) Which of the following is the most appropriate strategy for data cleaning before performing clustering analysis,
given less than desirable number of data points: 1)Capping and flouring of variables 2)Removal of outliers

A. 1 only
B. 2 only
C. 1 and 2
D. None of the above

Ans C