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What is Logistic Regression?
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What is Tweedie Regression?
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What is Beta regression?
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What is Gamma Regression?
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Briefly discuss other models that fall within the scope of GLM.
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What about cases where a significant number of observations have a count of 0 (in the context of Poisson Regression)?
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What is overdispersion in Poisson Regression, and what are alternate specifications for when it is present?
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What is the cost function used in Poisson Regression?
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How does GLM adjust to the case of count data?
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What is the error / loss function in logistic regression?
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of logistic regression?
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What is the equivalent of the overall F test in logistic regression?
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Why are coefficients estimated through Maximum Likelihood (MLE) instead of Least Squares?
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How are the coefficients in a logistic expression interpreted?
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What is the relationship between the log odds ratio and probability?
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Why are the log odds used in the link function instead of just the regular odds ratio?
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What problems would arise from using a regular linear regression to model a binary outcome?
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What are the assumptions of logistic regression?
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What is a Generalized Linear Model (GLM)?
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What is non-negative least squares, and when is it used?
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What are potential problems encountered in Linear Regression?
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What is a high influence point?
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What is a high leverage point?
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What is an outlier?
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What is the difference between outliers, high leverage points, and high influence points?
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What is the difference between Regression and ANOVA?
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Why does multicollinearity result in poor estimates of coefficients in linear regression?
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Doesn’t polynomial regression violate the multicollinearity assumption for Linear Regression?
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What are some approaches for modeling non linear relationships?
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Differentiate between Linear Models and Non Linear Models
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What are the most common transformations when the target variable is not normally distributed?
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How can categorical predictors be incorporated in linear regression?
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Suppose there are a large number of predictors ‘p’. What is the best approach to find out if any of the p predictors are helpful in predicting the response ‘y’?
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What are some of the problems with stepwise selection approaches?
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What is Information Criteria (AIC, BIC)?
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What are the various measures of error (MSE, RMSE, MAE)?
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What is R-squared and adjusted R-squared?
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What is Global F-Test?
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What are the evaluation criteria for a Linear Regression model?
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What is multicollinearity and how can that be identified?
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How is variability measured in Linear Regression?
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How are coefficients of linear regression estimated?
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What are some methods of Variable Selection?
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What are the assumptions of linear regression?
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What does Gradient in Gradient Boosted Trees refer to?
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What is XGBoost? How does it improve upon standard GBM?
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What is the difference between Adaboost and Gradient boost?
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Distinguish between a Weak learner and a Strong Learner
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How is Gradient Boosting different from Random Forest?
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of a GBM model?
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What are the key hyperparameters for a GBM model?
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What is Gradient Boosting (GBM)? Describe how does the Gradient Boosting algorithm work
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What is the difference between Decision Trees, Bagging and Random Forest?
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Why is Random Forest a non-linear model? Why does it result in non-linear decision boundaries?
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of Random Forest?
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What are the key hyperparameters for a Random Forest model?
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Explain the concept and working of the Random Forest model
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What is CART?
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Explain the concept of Linear Regression
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How does a decision tree create splits from continuous features?
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Explain the difference between Entropy, Gini, and Information Gain
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