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Will Price edited this page Nov 15, 2016 · 9 revisions
Question type Description Questions using this type
"definition" tests definitional knowledge
"calculation" the answer needs to be derived by means of calculation
"problem-solving" the question requires reasoning beyond calculation
"training" the question is about training particular models
"evaluation" the question is about evaluating particular models

| Question difficulty | Guideline | Questions using this type | |---------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------| | 1 | can be answered by looking up a specific passage in the book (e.g., match the following impurity measures with their mathematical definition) | | | 2 | requires some straightforward reasoning or calculation (e.g., complete the following contingency table) | | | 3 | requires more involved reasoning or calculation (e.g., a question involving some training data) | | | 4 | requires reasoning beyond what was discussed in the lectures (e.g., material on starred slides such as kernel methods) | | | 5 | a question on an advanced topic that was not discussed in the book (e.g., topics discussed in the epilogue) | |

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