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Statistics Theoretical Questions

Q1:   

What is Normal Distribution?

  
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Q2:   

What is Statistical Significance?

  
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Q3:   

What is the 68 - 95 - 99.7 rule for Normal Distribution?

  Related To: Anomaly Detection
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Q4:   

What are the differences in Anomalies for Uniform Distribution and Normal Distribution in One-Dimensional Data?

  Related To: Anomaly Detection
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Q5:   

What is the difference between Descriptive Statistics and Inferential Statistics?

  
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Q6:   

What is the Empirical Rule?

  
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Q7:   

Can there be more than one Mode?

  
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Q8:   

How many types of means do you know?

  
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Q9:   

What is Central Tendency?

  
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Q10:   

Why would you use the Median as a measure of central tendency?

  Related To: Anomaly Detection
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Q11:   

What's the difference between Confidence Interval and Confidence Level?

  
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Q12:   

What is the difference between the Standard Error of the Mean and Standard Deviation?

  
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Q13:   

In Statistics, what is the difference between Bias and Error?

  Related To: Supervised Learning
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Q14:   

What's the difference between Normalisation and Standardisation?

  Related To: Anomaly Detection
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Q15:   

What is the difference between Data Mining, Statistics, Machine Learning and AI?

  Related To: Data Mining
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Q16:   

When would you use the Interquartile Range (IQR)?

  
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Q17:   

How many types of measures of Variability do you know?

  
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Q18:   

Explain how to use Standard Deviation for Anomalies Detection?

  Related To: Anomaly Detection
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Q19:   

What's the difference between Kurtosis and Skewness?

  
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Q20:   

When would you use a t-test?

  
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Q21:   

How would you determine the needed Sample Size?

  Related To: Data Processing
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Q22:   

How do you transform a Skewed distribution into a Normal distribution?

  Related To: Feature Engineering
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Q23:   

In measuring reaction time, a psychologist estimates that the standard deviation is 0.05 seconds.

  
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Q24:   

What's the difference between Homoskedasticity and Heteroskedasticity?

  Related To: Linear Regression
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Q25:   

What is the F-Score?

  Related To: Classification, Model Evaluation
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Q26:   

in which use-case we should use Mean and when to use Median?

  
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Q27:   

How do you reduce the risk of making a Type I and Type II error?

  Related To: Model Evaluation
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Q28:   

What a p-value tells you about statistical significance of observation?

  
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Q29:   

What is the Central Limit Theorem (CLT)?

  
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Q30:   

How many Levels of Measures do you know?

  
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Q31:   

How many Sampling Techniques do you know?

  
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Q32:   

What does a Statistical Test do?

  
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Q33:   

How would you choose the Statistical Test to use?

  
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Q34:   

How would you calculate a Confidence Interval?

  
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Q35:   

What's the difference between z-score and t-score?

  
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Q36:   

How many types of Descriptive Statistics do you know?

  
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Q37:   

When you sample, what potential Sampling Biases could you be inflicting?

  Related To: Data Processing, Bias & Variance
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Q38:   

How would you assess the Statistical Significance of an insight?

  
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Q39:   

State null and alternate hypothesis for a relationship between gender and height

  
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Q40:   

Is mean imputation of missing data acceptable practice? Why or why not?

  Related To: Data Processing
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Q41:   

What is the difference between Central Limit Theorem and the Law of Large Numbers?

  
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Q42:   

How would you calculate a Confidence Interval for non normally distributed data?

  
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Q43:   

How would you increase the Statistical Power?

  
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Q44:   

Can Data Cleaning worsen the results of Statistical Analysis?

  Related To: Data Processing
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Q45:   

How could I (statistically) find features that are more important than others?

  Related To: Data Processing
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Q46:   

Which measures of Variability would you use on your data?

  Related To: Data Processing
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Q47:   

What's the difference between Covariance and Correlation?

  
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Q48:   

What is a Long Tail distribution? How they are produced in real life?

  
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Q49:   

How would you calculate and evaluate the Effect Size?

  
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Q50:   

How does an ANOVA test work?

  Related To: Data Processing
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Statistics Practical Challenges

Q1:   

Running For Office Challenge

  
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Q2:   

Two Aces Challenge

  
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Q3:   

Experiment on Extrasensory Perception (ESP) Challenge

  
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Q4:   

Performance of Two Classes Challenge

  
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Q5:   

Final Exams Standing Challenge

  
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Q6:   

99% Confidence Interval Challenge

  
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Q7:   

Mathematics Competition Challenge

  Related To: Probability
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Q8:   

Total Number of Possible Passwords Challenge

  Related To: Probability
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Q9:   

Random Guess Test Pass Challenge

  
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