Machine Learning Quiz 01: Linear Regression
By: Md Shahidullah Kawsar
Tags: Data Science, Linear Regression, Quiz, Gradient Descent, Machine Learning

Let’s check your basic knowledge of linear regression, the most commonly used machine learning algorithm. Here are 10 multiple-choice questions for you and there’s no time limit. Have fun!

Question 1: A linear regression model assumes “a linear relationship between the input variables and the single output variable.” What’s the meaning of this assumption?

(A) The output variable can’t be calculated from a linear combination of the input variables

(B) The output variable can be calculated from a linear combination of the input variables

(C) Input variables can be calculated from a linear combination of the output variables

(D) Output variable = sum of the input variables

Question 2: In a simple linear regression problem, a single input variable (x) and a single output variable (y), the linear equation would be y = ax + b; where a and b are _______ and ________ respectively. (select two)

(A) bias Coefficient, feature coefficient

(B) feature coefficient, bias Coefficient

(C) slope, y-intercept

(D) y-intercept, slope

Question 3: For a regression line through the data, the vertical distance from each data point to the regression line is called residual. (i) Square the residual, and (ii) sum all of the squared errors together. This is the quantity that ordinary least squares seek to _____?

(A) minimize

(B) maximize

(C) increase

(D) None of these

Question 4: For a linear regression model, start with random values for each coefficient. The sum of the squared errors is calculated for each pair of input and output values. A learning rate is used as a scale factor and the coefficients are updated in the direction towards minimizing the error. The process is repeated until a minimum sum squared error is achieved or no further improvement is possible. This technique is called ______?

(A) Gradient Descent

(B) Ordinary Least Squares

(C) Homoscedasticity

(D) Regularization

Question 5: Which parameter determines the size of the improvement step to take on each iteration of Gradient Descent?

(A) learning rate

(B) epoch

(C) batch size

(D) regularization parameter

Question 6: One of the major assumptions of the linear regression: when the variance around the regression line is the same for all values of the predictor variable is called _____?

(A) L1 regularization

(B) Lasso Regression

(C) Homoscedasticity

(D) Heteroscedasticity

Question 7: For a Linear Regression model, we choose the coefficients and the bias term by minimizing the _____.

(A) Loss function

(B) Error function

(C) Cost function

(D) All of the above

Question 8: Which one is the correct Linear regression assumption?

(A) Linear regression assumes the input and output variables are not noisy

(B) Linear regression will over-fit your data when you have highly correlated input variables

(C) The residuals (true target value − predicted target value) of the data are normally distributed and independent from each other

(D) All of the above

Question 9: In a linear regression model, which technique can find the coefficients?

(A) Ordinary Least Squares

(B) Gradient Descent

(C) Regularization

(D) All of the above

Question 10: Which one is the disadvantage of Linear Regression?

(A) The assumption of linearity between the dependent variable and the independent variables. In the real world, the data is not always linearly separable

(B) Linear regression is very sensitive to outliers

(C) Before applying Linear regression, multicollinearity should be removed because it assumes that there is no relationship among independent variables.

(D) All of the above

For the solutions check the last line of Machine Learning Quiz 02: Ridge, Lasso. Happy learning. If you like the questions and enjoy taking the test, leave a clap for me. Feel free to discuss/share your thoughts on these questions in the comment section.