12.5.A - Bootstrapping
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Practice Questions
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What is bootstrapping?
💡 Hint: Think about how we can simulate data sampling.
Why do we use bootstrapping?
💡 Hint: Consider situations with limited data.
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What is the purpose of bootstrapping?
💡 Hint: Consider what bootstrapping achieves statistically.
Bootstrapping uses sampling with replacement. True or False?
💡 Hint: Reflect on our keyword 'replacement'.
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You are given a dataset with 100 observations. Describe how you would employ bootstrapping to calculate confidence intervals for the mean of a chosen numerical feature.
💡 Hint: Focus on how you derive the mean from the bootstrap samples.
Critically discuss how bootstrapping could lead to incorrect conclusions in a model evaluation if the data sample is not representative of the population.
💡 Hint: Consider the implications of having a skewed dataset.
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