Practice - Comprehensive Comparative Analysis and Discussion
Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions
What is a hyperplane in the context of SVM?
💡 Hint: Think about visualizing a line or plane that divides classes.
What does Gini impurity measure in a Decision Tree?
💡 Hint: Consider the likelihood of choosing a point that belongs to the wrong class.
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What is the main goal of an SVM?
💡 Hint: Consider what the S in SVM stands for and the role of margins.
True or False: Decision Trees can easily exhibit overfitting if no constraints are applied.
💡 Hint: Think about what overfitting means and how it relates to tree depth.
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Challenge Problems
Push your limits with advanced challenges
You are tasked with designing a classification model for a financial dataset that includes potential noise and outliers. Discuss which algorithms you would choose (SVM or Decision Tree) and defend your choice with at least three reasons. Consider how you might tune the model to manage overfitting.
💡 Hint: Look into problem characteristics and algorithm strengths.
Critically analyze a dataset with highly overlapping classes and propose how you would visualize the decision boundaries if using both a Decision Tree and an SVM. Discuss how these boundaries might differ.
💡 Hint: Consider the geometrical aspects of decision boundaries.
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