Machine Learning Engineer
Statistics and probability questions
24 questions on Statistics and probability for machine learning engineers, easiest first.
Easy 5
Medium 10
- Validating a forecasting modelmedium
- Positive test for a rare conditionmedium
- Order of arguments in KL divergencemedium
- Closed-form least squaresmedium
- Helping a linear model with a ratiomedium
- Loss that tolerates a few wild labelsmedium
- Predicting daily order countsmedium
- Building a lag featuremedium
- All one-hot columns plus an interceptmedium
- Error bars on a test metricmedium
Hard 9
- Retraining on your own recommendationshard
- Why least squares is maximum likelihoodhard
- Spam probability from one wordhard
- Coefficient on a log-price modelhard
- Promising a delivery time to customershard
- A gap between train and test windowshard
- Comparing two models on one test sethard
- Is a 1-point gain real?hard
- Twenty metrics, one significanthard