Practice - Implementing Elastic Net Regression with Cross-Validation
Practice Questions
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What is the primary purpose of regularization in machine learning?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens when a model learns too much detail from training data.
Name two types of regularization techniques.
💡 Hint: Think naming conventions that indicate their behavior with model coefficients.
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What does Elastic Net regularization combine?
💡 Hint: Remember the two types it uses.
True or False: Cross-validation can lead to overfitting.
💡 Hint: Think about how it evaluates across different data partitions.
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Challenge Problems
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Given a dataset with 10 predictors, some of which are correlated, describe a strategy for using Elastic Net to select features while preventing overfitting.
💡 Hint: Consider how Elastic Net allows for both shrunk coefficients and feature elimination.
Create a Python script that performs Elastic Net regression on a given dataset, and utilize K-Fold cross-validation to evaluate its performance.
💡 Hint: Focus on setting up appropriate data preprocessing before the implementation.
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