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SDS Data science techniques and modelling

Written by Saad Rahman (ACCA)

7 ACCA New at Strategic Professional level questions with answers and explanations.

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  1. A model that fits the training data very closely but performs poorly on new data is:

    • 1 Unbiased
    • 2 Well calibrated
    • 3 Underfitted
    • 4 Overfitted
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    Correct answer: Overfitted

    Overfitting means that the model has learned noise.

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  2. A fraud model flags 50 of 1,000 transactions. 30 of the flagged are real fraud, and there are 40 frauds in total. The precision is:

    • 1 97%
    • 2 75%
    • 3 30%
    • 4 60%
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    Correct answer: 60%

    Precision = true positives / flagged = 30 / 50 = 60 percent.

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  3. A fraud model flags 50 of 1,000 transactions. 30 of the flagged are real fraud, and there are 40 frauds in total. The recall is:

    • 1 75%
    • 2 60%
    • 3 97%
    • 4 50%
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    Correct answer: 75%

    Recall = 30 / 40 = 75 percent.

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  4. Accuracy can be a poor measure of performance when:

    • 1 The model is simple
    • 2 There are many columns
    • 3 Data is numeric
    • 4 One class is very rare
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    Correct answer: One class is very rare

    A model that says 'no fraud' to all would be highly accurate but useless.

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  5. Grouping customers into segments without predefined labels is an example of:

    • 1 Unsupervised learning (clustering)
    • 2 Regression
    • 3 Supervised classification
    • 4 Hypothesis testing
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    Correct answer: Unsupervised learning (clustering)

    Clustering finds structure without a target variable.

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  6. Predicting a customer's monthly spend as a number is a:

    • 1 Anomaly detection problem
    • 2 Classification problem
    • 3 Regression problem
    • 4 Clustering problem
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    Correct answer: Regression problem

    Classification predicts categories.

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  7. Splitting data into training and test sets is done to:

    • 1 Reduce the file size
    • 2 Avoid cleaning
    • 3 Hide the data
    • 4 Estimate how the model will perform on unseen data
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    Correct answer: Estimate how the model will perform on unseen data

    The test set must not be used in training.

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