A H192009 Pages: 3: Answer All Questions, Each Carries 4 Marks
A H192009 Pages: 3: Answer All Questions, Each Carries 4 Marks
A H192009 Pages: 3: Answer All Questions, Each Carries 4 Marks
PART A
Answer all questions, each carries 4 marks. Marks
1 How is data warehouse different from a database? How are they similar? (4)
2 Compare star and snowflake schema dimension table. (4)
3 Use the two methods below to normalize the following group of data: (4)
100,200,300,500,900
i) min-max normalization by setting min=0 and max=1
ii) z-score normalization
4 Explain the attribute selection method in decision trees . (4)
5 Distinguish between hold out method and cross validation method. (4)
6 Explain prepruning and postpruning approaches in decision tree algorithm. (4)
7 Differentiate between support and confidence. (4)
8 How to compute the dissimilarity between objects described by binary variables? (4)
9 Differentiate between Agglomerative and Divisive hierarchical clustering (4)
method.
10 Explain web content mining? (4)
PART B
Answer any two full questions, each carries 9 marks.
11 The following data is given in increasing order for the attribute age:
13,15,16,16,19,20,20,21,22,22,25,25,25,25,30,33,33,35,35,35,36,40,45,46,52,70.
a) Use smoothing by bin boundaries to smooth these data, using bin depth of 3. (3)
b) How might you determine outliers in the data? (3)
c) What other methods are there for data smoothing? (3)
12) Explain the following procedures for attribute subset selection
a) Stepwise forward selection (3)
b) Stepwise backward elimination (3)
c) A combination of forward selection and backward elimination (3)
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15 The following figure shows a multilayer feed-forward neural network. Let the (9)
learning rate be 0.9. The initial weight and bias values of the network is given in
the table below.The activation function used is the sigmoid function.
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Show weight and bias updation with the first training sample (1,0,1) with class
label 1, using backpropagation algorithm
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