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Decision Trees Theoretical Questions

Q1:   

What are Decision Trees?

  Related To: Supervised Learning
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Q2:   

What type of node is considered Pure?

  
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Q3:   

Explain the structure of a Decision Tree

  Related To: Supervised Learning
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Q4:   

How are the different nodes of decision trees represented?

  Related To: Supervised Learning
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Q5:   

What are some advantages of using Decision Trees?

  
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Q6:   

How is a Random Forest related to Decision Trees?

  Related To: Random Forest, Ensemble Learning
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Q7:   

What is Tree Bagging?

  Related To: Ensemble Learning
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Q8:   

What is Gini Index and how is it used in Decision Trees?

  
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Q9:   

What is the Chi-squared test?

  
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Q10:   

How does the CART algorithm produce Classification Trees?

  
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Q11:   

How does the CART algorithm produce Regression Trees?

  
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Q12:   

What is the difference between Post-pruning and Pre-pruning?

  
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Q13:   

Compare Linear Regression and Decision Trees

  Related To: Linear Regression
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Q14:   

What is the difference between OOB score and validation score?

  Related To: Random Forest, Ensemble Learning
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Q15:   

What is Tree Boosting?

  Related To: Ensemble Learning
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Q16:   

How would you tune a Random Forest algorithm to improve its performance?

  
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Q17:   

Why do you need to Prune the decision tree?

  
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Q18:   

What type of Cost Functions do Greedy Splitting use?

  Related To: Cost Function
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Q19:   

How would you define the Stopping Criteria for decision trees?

  
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Q20:   

What is Greedy Splitting?

  
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Q21:   

What are some disadvantages of using Decision Trees and how would you solve them?

  Related To: Data Processing, Ensemble Learning
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Q22:   

What is Entropy?

  Related To: Machine Learning
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Q23:   

How would you deal with an Overfitted Decision Tree?

  
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Q24:   

How do we measure the Information?

  Related To: Machine Learning
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Q25:   

What is the difference between Gradient Boosting and Adaptive Boosting?

  Related To: Supervised Learning
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Q26:   

What is difference between Gini Impurity and Entropy in Decision Tree?

  
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Q27:   

What are the steps for Binary Recursive Partitioning in Decision Trees?

  
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Q28:   

What is the Variance Reduction metric in Decision Trees?

  
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Q29:   

Imagine that you know there are outliers in your data, would you use Logistic Regression?

  Related To: Anomaly Detection, Random Forest, Logistic Regression
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Q30:   

Compare Decision Trees and k-Nearest Neighbors

  Related To: K-Nearest Neighbors
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Q31:   

What are the differences between Decision Trees and Neural Networks?

  Related To: Neural Networks
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Q32:   

Compare Decision Trees and Logistic Regression

  Related To: Logistic Regression
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Q33:   

How to use Isolation Forest for Anomalies detection?

  Related To: Anomaly Detection
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Q34:   

How do you Gradient Boost decision trees?

  Related To: Ensemble Learning
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Q35:   

What is the relationship between Information Gain and Information Gain Ratio?

  
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Q36:   

Compare C4.5 and C5.0 algorithms

  
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Q37:   

Compare ID3 and C4.5 algorithms

  
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Q38:   

How would you compare different Algorithms to build Decision Trees?

  
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Q39:   

Explain how ID3 produces classification trees?

  
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Q40:   

Explain how can CART algorithm performs Pruning?

  
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Q41:   

What are some disadvantages of the CHAID algorithm?

  
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Q42:   

Explain the CHAID algorithm

  
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Q43:   

When should I use Gini Impurity as opposed to Information Gain (Entropy)?

  
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Q44:   

What is the use of Entropy pertaining to Decision Trees?

  Related To: Machine Learning
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Q45:   

While building Decision Tree how do you choose which attribute to split at each node?

  
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Q46:   

Explain the measure of goodness used by CART

  
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Q47:   

How do you extend Decision Trees to Collaborative Filtering?

  Related To: Recommendation Systems
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Decision Trees Practical Challenges

Q1:   

How to extract the decision rules from Scikit-learn decision tree?

  Related To: Scikit-Learn
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Q2:   

Explain how you would implement CART training algorithm in plain Python

 PY Related To: Python
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