Practice Impurity Measures - 3.6.2 | 3. Kernel & Non-Parametric Methods | Advance Machine Learning
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Practice Questions

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Question 1

Easy

What does a Gini Index of 0 indicate?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think of how classes are distributed.

Question 2

Easy

What does Entropy measure?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider how unpredictable the class distribution is.

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

What does a Gini Index of 0 indicate?

  • High impurity
  • Perfect purity
  • Moderate impurity

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider what it means for classes to be entirely homogeneous.

Question 2

True or False: Entropy can be negative.

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how entropy reflects disorder.

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Challenge Problems

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Question 1

Design a small decision tree using sample data and illustrate how Gini Index and Entropy would guide your splits.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Focus on how each measure influences your choice of which attribute to split on.

Question 2

Analyze a given dataset and determine under what circumstances you would prefer to use Gini Index over Entropy and vice versa.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Reflect on the implications of choosing one measure over the other.

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