Data Analysis and Research

This quiz contains multiple-choice problems on graphical devices and plotting systems, basics of reproducible research, clustering, exploratory graphs and basics of literate statistical programming.

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Which of the following systems do(es) not have postscript viewer most often?

Windows

Linux

Mac

All of the mentioned

There are mainly three types of file devices. True or false?

True

False

Which of the following is a bitmap file type?

TIFF

SVG

PDF

None of the above

Which of the following functions display(s) a currently active graphics device?

dev.present

dev.cur

pre.cur

All of the above

The screen device is the most familiar place to ‘send’ a plot. True or false?

True

False

Which of the following is finally produced by hierarchical clustering?

Final estimate of cluster centroids

Tree showing how close things are to each other

Assignment of each point to clusters

All of the above

Which of the following is required by K-means clustering?

Defined distance metric

Number of clusters

Initial guess as to cluster centroids

All of the above

Which of the following combinations is incorrect?

Continuous – Euclidean distance

Continuous – correlation similarity

Binary – Manhattan distance

None of the above

Hierarchical clustering should be used primarily for exploration. True or false?

True

False

Which of the following functions is used for K-means clustering?

K-means

K-mean

Heatmap

None of the above

Which of the following clusterings requires a merging approach?

Partitional

Hierarchical

Naive Bayes

None of the above

K-means is not deterministic, and it also consists of several iterations. True or false?

True

False

Which of the following is an example of a graphics device?

PDF

SVG

JPEG

All of the above

Which of the following file formats is a Windows graphic device?

PDF

SVG

WMF

All of the above

Which of the following graphs can be used for simple summarization of data?

Scatterplot Overlaying Barplot All of the above
Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Data Analysis and Research
Questions: 15
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Ivan