Data Science Questions and Answers – Types of Questions – 1

This set of Data Science online quiz focuses on “Types of Questions – 1”.

1. Which of the following principle characteristic is odd man out in the below figure?
Principle 3 is odd man out in the figure in multivariate Data
a) Principle 1
b) Principle 2
c) Principle 3
d) Principle 4
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Answer: c
Explanation: Multivariate Data is the only characteristic related to Principle 3.

2. Point out the correct statement.
a) Descriptive analysis is first kind of data analysis performed
b) Descriptions can be generalized without statistical modelling
c) Description and Interpretation are same in descriptive analysis
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: Descriptive analysis describe a set of data.

3. Which of the following allows you to find the relationship you didn’t about?
a) Inferential
b) Exploratory
c) Causal
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: In statistics, exploratory data analysis is an approach to analyzing data sets to summarize their main characteristics, often with visual methods.

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4. Which of the following command help us to give message description?
a) git command -m
b) git command -d
c) git command -message
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: This only updates your local repository.

5. Point out the wrong statement.
a) Exploratory analyses are usually the final way
b) Exploratory models are useful for discovering new connection
c) Exploratory analysis alone should not be used for predicting
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: Exploratory analyses are usually not the final way.

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6. Which of the following uses data on some object to predict values for other object?
a) Inferential
b) Exploratory
c) Predictive
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: c
Explanation: A prediction is a forecast, but not only about the weather.

7. Which of the following is the common goal of statistical modelling?
a) Inference
b) Summarizing
c) Subsetting
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: Inference is the act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true.

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8. Which of the following model is usually a gold standard for data analysis?
a) Inferential
b) Descriptive
c) Causal
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: c
Explanation: A causal model is an abstract model that describes the causal mechanisms of a system.

9. Which of the following analysis should come in place of question mark in the below figure?
Inferential statistics is concerned with making predictions or inferences about population
a) Inferential
b) Exploratory
c) Causal
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: Inferential statistics is concerned with making predictions or inferences about a population from observations and analyses of a sample.
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10. Causal analysis is commonly applied to census data.
a) True
b) False
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Answer: b
Explanation: Descriptive analysis is commonly applied to census data.

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